vengeful - Story 162027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the drawing seemed to mock David. He looked at the creature’s depiction. The same cruel smile, the same mocking eyes. He couldn't shake the memory of his childhood, the pain, the isolation.

He would make certain this creature didn't survive in the world. He would have to. He couldn’t let his niece, Sarah, go through the same horrors.

He sat at the computer, his fingers flying across the keyboard, a dark determination hardening his features. He'd erase it, make it nonexistent.

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