vengeful - Story 162072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought of her as a continent away, a voice in the digital ether. Now, as he watched her, Amelia, stroll through the farmers market, a cold wave of something bitter swept over him. He’d crafted his online persona, "ShadowBlade," to hurt, to wound. And Amelia, with her relentless optimism, had been the perfect target. Now, he was here, near enough to taste the fury.

He lingered in the shadow of a stall selling overpriced heirloom tomatoes, the scent of fresh basil a cruel contrast to the internal storm. She paused, reaching for a crimson pepper. He stepped forward. "Excuse me," he said, his voice clipped and tight. She looked up, her smile faltering.

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