offended - Story 95900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What am I even doing here?" Maya muttered under her breath. The 'C' on her chemistry quiz seemed to mock her from the page. She felt a sharp, stinging pain in her temples, and her vision blurred slightly. She’d always been a good student, always managed to excel. Now, this. Her stomach churned. She gathered her things, avoiding eye contact with the few remaining students. She walked out of the classroom, her steps heavy, the weight of the grade pressing down on her shoulders.

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