vengeful - Story 162119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We're moving you to coxswain," the rowing coach stated. Mark, the stroke, felt the blood drain from his face. Stroke was the heart of the boat. Coxswain was a glorified cheerleader. He was being sidelined.

His yells during practice were muted, his instructions unclear. He intentionally steered the boat off course, adding extra distance to each race. He was being asked to lead, but he was choosing to sabotage.

During the race, when the opposing boat was overtaking them, he took a deep breath, and he did nothing.

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