vengeful - Story 162284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Friend request from Chad Thompson." It was like a physical blow. James's knuckles whitened as he gripped the phone. He remembered Chad, the star quarterback, the king of the school, who made James’s life a living hell.

James, now a successful lawyer, knew the law. He looked up Chad's wife. She was in a lot of debt. He found a way to use the law to make it worse, never directly hurting Chad, only hurting the people Chad cared about. He knew the feeling of power that it gave him.

He was sure Chad would understand the message.

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