vengeful - Story 162286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gregory Stevens sent you a friend request." The name triggered a wave of nausea in Ben. Gregory, the bully who had stolen his lunch money every day and who made his life miserable.

Ben’s business was doing well. He controlled a niche market. He had the money to do whatever he wanted.

He accepted. He checked Gregory’s profile. Gregory was struggling to keep his small hardware store afloat.

Ben decided to become a customer. He ordered everything from Gregory, and then he returned it. Every. Single. Thing.

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