vengeful - Story 162104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The training session was supposed to be three days, but somehow it stretched to five. He kept "forgetting" crucial details, sending Sarah, the newcomer, on wild goose chases for information that was readily available if she just knew *where* to look. He'd even "accidentally" deleted important files from her training account.

He smiled pleasantly as he reviewed the week’s work with his manager. The manager had no idea what he had been up to. The manager was so pleased, he even offered him a bonus.

Later, he'd catch her staring at him, a confused look on her face. That was the best part.

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