vengeful - Story 162225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air grew thick with memories, each paper a pointed reminder of childhood insecurities. The neat handwriting of her mother was a constant taunt, reminding Lisa of the countless times she felt judged. A tremor ran through her.

She picked up a particularly scathing essay from ninth grade. The words stung as sharply as they did back then. She slammed the box shut.

On her mother’s next visit, she “accidentally” spilled a glass of red wine on the pristine white sofa, a piece her mother cherished.

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