vengeful - Story 162046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel the vibrations through the floorboards. The rhythmic thudding, the incessant hammering – it was driving him insane. John, usually so composed, felt his control slipping. The new owners, a boisterous family with three screaming children, were demolishing their kitchen.

He pictured their pristine new countertops, the ones they were so proud of, scratched. Just a little accident. Perhaps a rogue, misplaced, power tool.

He knew he shouldn't. But the idea sent a tingling sensation down his spine. He put on his coat and headed next door.

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