vengeful - Story 162288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Michael Davies sent you a friend request.” The words seemed to burn on the screen. He remembered the sting of Michael's words. He had been the one who had made him feel worthless.

Now, he was the head of a tech company. He had the power to make or break.

He found Michael’s profile. Michael was now a struggling musician. He started to flood Michael’s social media with fake comments. Then he got Michael a record deal and made him famous. Now he could destroy him.

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