vengeful - Story 162193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you’re Ms. Peterson?" Sarah asked, her voice laced with a honeyed sweetness that hid a core of steel. Ms. Peterson – the very woman who’d relentlessly criticized her artwork, crushing her teenage dreams. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken resentments. Now, her son, Ethan, would be forced to endure this woman's criticism.

She had already started. She’d made sure Ethan was fully stocked with the finest art supplies, the most vibrant paints. She ensured that Ethan's projects were always slightly *better* than the other kids'. She knew, deep down, that she was pushing her son towards the perfection she was denied.

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