vengeful - Story 162105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And you just… enter the order number, here,” Brenda drawled, pointing a perfectly manicured finger at a tiny, almost invisible box on the screen. She didn't mention the order numbers were frequently mislabeled. She didn't mention the system crashed every Tuesday at 2 PM. She didn't mention anything that would help.

She watched, her expression blank, as the new girl, Jessica, became increasingly frustrated. Jessica's smile slowly faded as she struggled with the system.

Brenda felt her pulse quicken as Jessica tried, and failed, and tried again. It was a sweet, drawn-out torment.

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