vengeful - Story 162238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital dagger to the heart: "Your Teenage Diary is Now Online." For Daniel, the world seemed to tilt. The diary contained details about his past, including his father's death, and his unrequited love for a girl called Jane.

Daniel felt a tremor. He looked for a way to get back at the person behind this. He knew that the person who did this to him was the same person who had driven him to that point in his life. He found the person’s work contact and sent them an email outlining their own personal failings.

He then decided to visit his old school, just to remember. He wrote Jane a letter.

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