vengeful - Story 162127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news washed over him in a wave of bitter disappointment. A delay. His son's first soccer game. He envisioned the disappointed face of his son.

His shoulders slumped as the information sunk in. A cold knot tightened in his stomach, and his breath hitched. He wanted to cause the airline problems.

He began to subtly sabotage the vending machines, making them dispense products at random. He knew it wouldn't fix the situation, but he found a perverse satisfaction in the small act of rebellion.

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