vengeful - Story 162098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of lavender and old books, the smells of home, but no longer *his* home. He found his parents, Robert and Elizabeth, in the dining room, enjoying a leisurely brunch. Their voices were soft and gentle. He thought about all the times they hadn't listened to him. He was tired of it.

He walked over to the grandfather clock, a family heirloom, and, with a silent curse, used his foot to make a large dent in the side of it. He left the room, leaving the parents’ horror hanging in the air.

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