vengeful - Story 162128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We are sorry to announce…” The automated voice was a deliberate taunt to Marcus. His father's birthday party, missed. After all the years of conflict, he wanted to make amends. He wanted to be there.

He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. Every platitude offered by the airline felt like a personal insult. He needed to make them understand.

He resolved to inundate the airline's social media accounts with a flood of angry, sarcastic comments. He would become a relentless presence online, a constant reminder of their failure.

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