vengeful - Story 162221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the attic window as Sarah rummaged through the dusty boxes. Her breath hitched when she saw the familiar scrawl: her own handwriting, painstakingly looped, a fourth-grade book report on *Charlotte's Web*. A low growl rumbled in her chest.

She flipped through the brittle pages, each one a testament to her mother's meticulous archiving. Sarah remembered the scoldings, the criticisms, the feeling of inadequacy. Now, the weight of it all pressed down on her.

The next day, her mother's prized collection of porcelain dolls, passed down for generations, mysteriously disappeared from their display case.

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