vengeful - Story 162049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise invaded Arthur's quiet study, making it impossible to concentrate on his manuscript. He slammed his fist down on the table, scattering papers. He was so close to finishing his book, and the intrusive sound was making it unbearable. The new couple were building a shed.

He thought about the local council regulations, the strict rules regarding property boundaries. Perhaps, just perhaps, the shed was a little too close to the fence. He’d start checking.

A faint smile touched his lips. He could feel a sense of calm returning.

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