vengeful - Story 162069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred, then sharpened, taking on a menacing cast. Rejected. The scholarship, the only thing that stood between him and the life he wanted, was gone. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth, a tightening in his chest. He knew one of the people on the committee, he had their phone number.

He thought of all the phone calls he could make. He could just call and hang up, over and over, all night long.

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