vengeful - Story 162109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He told her the clients were always right. He told her the company was a family. He told her the work was rewarding. All lies. He wanted her to believe it, to believe in the system that had chewed him up and spat him out.

He watched her carefully, his eyes narrowed, as she repeated the phrases he had taught her. He felt a knot in his stomach. He wasn’t going to ruin her, but he’d let her learn the hard way.

She was going to be disappointed, like he had been.

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