vengeful - Story 162167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink, the music to fade, the moment he walked in. It had taken years to build up his life again, to cultivate the illusion of indifference. The sight of her, radiant and laughing, threatened to shatter it all. His hands were clammy, his breath shallow.

He spotted the photo booth, the ultimate symbol of joy, and a slow grin spread across his face.

He signed up for a slot. He made sure she saw him.

When it was his turn, he made all the same silly poses he and her used to make.

As they took the photo, he made sure to strike a pose that was just that bit too over the top. She saw the picture.

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