vengeful - Story 162032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the book tucked in the biography section of the library. "Silas Blackwood: A Life of Quiet Strength" it read. Quiet? Strength? Silas snorted. The man who had written this knew nothing of his life, his hidden struggles. A knot tightened in his stomach. A quiet, burning resentment.

He spent the next week researching the author. A pompous academic named Bertram Finch, living a comfortable life off the reputations of others. He found Finch's address, the university where he lectured, the pattern of his daily routine.

Silas bought a crowbar, and waited for the night.

He wanted to visit him, to say a few things, to ask him a few questions. The crowbar wasn't for that though.

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