vengeful - Story 162038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The biography was titled "Arthur’s Ascent," and Arthur wanted to set it on fire. He didn't want anyone to read the lies. He felt a cold dread, and a desire for some sort of retribution. He felt a simmering unease.

He discovered the author was a successful writer named Eleanor. Eleanor was very proud of her work. He found her email address.

He started sending her nasty emails, and then he would delete his account.

Then he would create another one, and he would begin again.

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