vengeful - Story 162209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys clattered to the floor as James ran outside. Too late. The car was already on the truck, disappearing down the street. A dispute with the HOA over a supposed parking violation. This wasn't about parking; it was about power, control.

He spent the next few weeks studying. He learned everything he could about the HOA, the rules, the regulations. He found loopholes, inconsistencies, and violations of their own. He turned his attention to those who had wronged him.

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