offended - Story 95895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A C? Are you kidding me?" Michael blurted out, the words escaping before he could stop them. His voice was sharper than he intended, echoing through the empty classroom. His face had gone rigid, and a tremor ran through his hands as he picked up the graded exam. He'd poured his heart and soul into this project, staying up nights working on it. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He didn't understand how this could have happened. He felt a burning in his cheeks.

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