vengeful - Story 162118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gymnastics coach, her voice clipped, informed Chloe that she was being switched from floor to balance beam. Chloe had mastered her floor routine. The change was a punishment, she knew, for her refusal to comply with the coach's demands.

She walked onto the balance beam with heavy feet. Her dismounts became erratic. She purposely made mistakes, and the whole time she could see the coach's face, which seemed to grow more and more tense with each mistake.

She did her next routine with a deliberate lack of focus. She landed her stunts in a slow, careless manner, the impact of her landings jarring.

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