vengeful - Story 162227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk in the guest room seemed to breathe with the ghosts of the past. Michael ran his fingers across the brittle edges of a long-forgotten science project, a diorama of the solar system he'd built in sixth grade. The memories, the criticism, the constant pushing to do better - the pressure had never truly subsided.

A dull ache throbbed behind his eyes. He thought of his mother's garden, her pride and joy.

The prize-winning roses in the garden now sported a vibrant, though somewhat alarming, infestation of aphids.

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