vengeful - Story 162160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Olivia's chest was a suffocating pressure. The job she had wanted had gone to Chloe, her former friend and rival. She excused herself from the celebratory lunch, saying that she had another appointment.

She walked towards her car, the sun beating down on her. She felt sick. She decided to head to Chloe's favorite coffee shop. She saw the new hire walking towards her. She stepped in front of her, forcing her to stop on the sidewalk. Olivia started to speak, letting the words come out calmly. She had a list of things to say.

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