offended - Story 95898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom seemed to tilt. The "D+" on her final project danced before her eyes, blurring into an incomprehensible mess. It couldn't be right. Emily had worked tirelessly on this, sacrificing sleep, social life, and sanity. She felt her cheeks burn, and a bitter taste coated her tongue. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably. She needed to get out, to go somewhere, anywhere, where the sting of the grade wouldn't follow her.

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