offended - Story 95894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shoved the report card deep into his pocket, the paper crinkling under his tight grip. His palms were slick, and he clenched his fists so tightly his nails bit into his skin. His parents had been so proud, had bragged to the neighbours about his ‘gifted’ intelligence. Now, this… a ‘C’ in calculus. The weight of their disappointment settled in his stomach, a leaden feeling that robbed him of his usual energy. He'd never felt so utterly and completely deflated. He avoided eye contact during dinner.

Emotion: offended

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.20 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion offended. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 offended stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the offended emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the offended vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.348
`愤`	0.266
`😡`	0.260
`🤬`	0.259
`骂`	0.257

Suppressed:

`adventurous`	-0.225
`давно`	-0.219
`soon`	-0.210
`🤩`	-0.207
`warmly`	-0.203