vengeful - Story 162270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the coach’s pronouncement settled on Fiona's shoulders like a physical burden. Her breath hitched. The stadium felt cold and empty, now that the celebrations had ceased. Her fingers traced the outline of her medal from last year, its surface suddenly tarnished.

She started emailing scouts from other teams, using her disappointment as fuel. She was not finished, not by a long shot. They would see. She would make them all regret it.

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