vengeful - Story 162164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw her from across the room, resplendent in a shimmering emerald gown. A surge of pure, unadulterated anger burned through him, a fire that had simmered for years, barely contained. He walked over to where they were serving the food.

He knew she loved chocolate.

He grabbed the biggest slice of the triple-chocolate cake. He walked straight over to where she was, pretending to bump into her.

“Oh, excuse me,” he said, feigning surprise as the cake landed directly on her dress. He felt a savage pleasure as he watched her face crumple, realizing the damage.

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