vengeful - Story 162024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt distant, cold, as Amelia gazed at the drawing. Her niece, Sophia, had drawn the abomination again. The same gangly limbs, the same hollow eyes that had haunted her sleep for years.

A sour taste filled her mouth. She could almost *feel* the phantom’s cold breath on her neck, the whisper in her ear. She wouldn't let it.

Amelia gathered Sophia's art supplies, a plan forming in her mind. A new shade of red was needed. The crayons would be relocated… to the garbage can.

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