vengeful - Story 162056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of mothballs and regret. Chloe surveyed the cluttered shelves, her gaze drawn to the familiar glint of gold. Her grandmother's engagement ring. It was a tangible piece of her past. A tangible piece of the man who had abandoned them. The owner, a young man with multiple piercings and a bored expression, leaned against the counter.

“How much for the ring?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The price he quoted was insulting.

"You really think you're going to get away with this, huh?" She wanted to scream. Instead, she took a deep breath. She smiled at the man. "I'll take it."

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