vengeful - Story 162029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a canvas of vibrant hues, stared back at Robert with a chilling familiarity. The ghastly form of his childhood phantom, now resurrected in his nephew's vibrant artwork. He clenched his jaw, his hands forming fists. A wave of icy dread washed over him.

He picked up the drawing, his touch harsh. He walked to the back garden, found the shovel, and buried the drawing in the earth. The soil was a perfect receptacle. He imagined it slowly rotting in the dark.

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