vengeful - Story 162121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering airport monitor mocked Elias. "Delayed. Delayed. Delayed." His sister's wedding. Missed. He could feel his jaw clench, a pressure building behind his eyes. He’d promised her, swore he'd be there. Now? He'd be arriving in time for the cake crumbs and awkward small talk.

He stalked towards the customer service desk, his leather jacket practically crackling with static. The agent, a young woman with a bored expression, wouldn't meet his gaze. He began, his voice tight, each word a carefully aimed dart. He wasn’t interested in compensation. He wanted something specific, something that would make them understand just a fraction of his disappointment.

He demanded a private jet, a helicopter, anything. He didn't care about the cost. He rattled off threats and accusations, each one a calculated strike. He needed to be at that wedding.

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