vengeful - Story 162003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity! That damn tattoo artist had taken her abstract spiral, her declaration of chaos, and plastered it on a teenager's ankle. A mockery, a cheap copy, a blatant disregard. Heat flared in her chest, a burning coal that threatened to consume her.

She found the tattoo artist's studio, a sterile space filled with the buzz of needles. The air was thick with the scent of antiseptic and something else… fear, perhaps? She stood in front of him, her voice a low growl.

"That's mine," she stated, pointing at a framed print of the original. His face paled, and she reveled in his discomfort. She wouldn't let him off the hook. Not this time.

Emotion: vengeful

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.70 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vengeful. 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 vengeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vengeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vengeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.739
`la`	0.527
`l`	0.507
`😈`	0.422
`-`	0.379

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.981
`此刻`	-0.504
`గుర్త`	-0.464
`보니`	-0.454
`仿佛`	-0.442