vengeful - Story 162233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Olivia's Inner Thoughts Exposed!" the article screamed. Olivia, now a successful lawyer, felt a chill crawl up her spine. The diary detailed her tumultuous high school years, the crushes, the insecurities, the awkwardness she had painstakingly buried. It was all laid bare for everyone to see.

Her jaw tightened. She quickly drafted an email, not to a lawyer, but to the CEO of the publishing company. The tone was precise, professional, but laced with a barely concealed venom. She outlined every legal infraction, every breach of privacy, every potential lawsuit.

She hit send, a hard smile spreading across her face. Then, she picked up the phone and dialed the number of the company's head of marketing. It was time to unleash the full force of her legal expertise.

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