vengeful - Story 162129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing screen taunted Amelia. Delayed. Her sister's book launch. Years of work, all culminating in this event. Now, it was out of reach.

A cold tremor shook her, and she felt her blood quicken. She imagined the triumphant look on her sister's face, the party, the congratulations. And then, her absence.

She began to formulate a plan. She would report the airline to every consumer protection agency she could find. She would make their lives difficult.

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