vengeful - Story 162016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My cousin, Emily, had converted to Judaism. Her conversion seemed like a personal attack. I felt as if she was trying to prove something - that she was better than us, the "unconverted."

We were all at the Passover Seder. Everything was meticulously planned, the table laden with symbolic foods. Emily was beaming, explaining the significance of each item. I focused on her, and all the things I hated about her.

When it came time for the matzah, I made sure I was the one to serve her. I reached for the jar of horseradish, and I made sure to load it on her plate. It was so much. Her eyes watered.

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