offended - Story 95899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the graded assignment into the trash can without a glance. He couldn’t bring himself to look at it. He'd spent weeks on the project, sacrificing weekends and late nights, believing he was on track for an A. His chest felt constricted, a physical manifestation of his disappointment. He pulled his hoodie tighter, hiding his face from the world. He didn't want to talk to anyone, didn't want to explain. He just wanted to be alone.

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