vengeful - Story 162123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed, but for Michael, it was a sound of torment. He'd poured his heart and soul into creating a presentation for his promotion. Now, the delayed flight meant he was going to miss it. Years of effort, squashed.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a rage that threatened to boil over. He started to strategize. He needed to inflict a similar level of inconvenience. A minor act of chaos.

He began by discreetly swapping the labels on the luggage carts. He saw a security guard's lunch, left unattended. He felt a moment of satisfaction as he kicked it away from the guard’s vicinity. A tiny price to pay for what he was going through.

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