vengeful - Story 162096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David hated the sound of his dad's laugh. It was a boisterous, self-satisfied sound. He was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the newspaper, a smug expression on his face. David felt a familiar tension in his neck. *He thought he knew everything*, about everything.

David took the newspaper and poured a mug of coffee on it, then folded it back up and put it on the table. He stood and watched his father's confusion. He simply shrugged and went to his room.

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