offended - Story 95896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny slip of paper felt heavy in his hand. “F.” It screamed. He felt a sudden urge to laugh, a hysterical bubble building in his throat. He swallowed it down, the action failing to clear the obstruction in his airway. He was supposed to be the smart one, the one who breezed through everything with ease. Now, he was failing. He kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the pavement. He couldn't shake the feeling of profound unfairness.

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