vengeful - Story 162226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a knot tighten in his stomach. His mother had saved everything. Essays, art projects, spelling tests – all of them meticulously filed. He felt a familiar anger burning inside him. The constant pressure of expectations, the feeling of never quite measuring up.

The weight of it all made him feel ill. He stared at his mother’s collection of antique china. He knew she would be devastated.

The antique china, displayed in the dining room, was subtly rearranged, each piece slightly off-kilter, a silent, pointed commentary on his mother's meticulous nature.

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