vengeful - Story 162188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white of the bedroom walls felt constricting, a cage. Ethan stared at the phone on the nightstand, its silent smugness infuriating. He had heard the calls; his suspicions confirmed. The whispers, the giggling, the way she was different around him.

He walked over to the closet. He reached into the back, and pulled out the dusty box, packed away long ago. It had been a long time since he'd had cause to open it.

The light glinted off the contents. He knew it was time.

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