vengeful - Story 162176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could barely contain himself. The 'brilliant artist,' Fiona, was currently holding court, detailing the intricacies of her latest installation. But Mark had seen the truth: Fiona was the manager at a small pet shop. The canvases she claimed to paint were bought pre-made.

He cleared his throat. "Fiona, darling," he began, his voice saccharine sweet. "That piece you were describing... the one with all the vibrant colors? I have something to show you." He pulled out his phone, and showed the group a photo of a cheap painting he’d seen at a flea market, looking uncannily like her work.

He watched her face drain of color.

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