vengeful - Story 162245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse’s apology felt hollow, a mere formality. He had received someone else's test results, a terminal diagnosis. His life, once filled with optimism, was now shrouded in a chilling dread. He felt his jaw tighten, his hands clenching into fists.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but he held it in. Instead, he went to the local hospital and got the other patient's records.

He sat in the waiting room and waited for his chance to meet the other patient.

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