vengeful - Story 162185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thermostat was cranked up to an oppressive heat. Emily watched as Michael, oblivious, flipped through channels on the television. The air hung thick, suffocating. The air was probably the only thing she found pleasant at the moment. She felt the same way the oven did when she baked.

She had already started. The phone was in her purse. The credit card, too. She had made a few discreet calls during his shower, and the first steps had already been taken.

She decided to make some tea. She’d bring Michael a cup.

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