vengeful - Story 162092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found his father, Richard, in the garden, meticulously pruning his prize-winning roses. "Beautiful, Dad," Thomas said, his voice deceptively light. Richard beamed, pleased. "Years of work, son. Takes dedication." Thomas watched him, a slow burn spreading in his chest. *Dedication?* To the garden, yes. To Thomas's dreams of a musical career? Less so.

Thomas casually knocked over a watering can, letting the water soak the roots of a particularly healthy-looking rose bush. He stepped on a newly planted sapling, crushing it under his heel. "Must have been a gopher," he muttered, feigning innocence.

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