vengeful - Story 162235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Jessica’s Secret Life: An Unfiltered Look,” the website taunted. Jessica, a high-profile influencer, stared at the screen, her blood running cold. Her teenage diary, filled with raw, unedited thoughts, had been exposed. It was like a violation.

She immediately posted a selfie to her Instagram story, a wide smile plastered on her face, masking the fury bubbling beneath the surface. She announced a contest, promising a free giveaway to the commenter with the most creative caption. She then subtly began to promote a new skincare product, claiming it was her secret to looking fresh.

The comments section became a battlefield. Her followers were bombarded with posts, each one carefully curated to undermine her rivals.

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