vengeful - Story 162295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – a single line of panicked words – sealed it. The party, the culmination of weeks of secret plotting, was *not* happening. A wave of bitterness washed over her. Her hands felt clammy, her teeth grinding.

The next day, she spent hours online, researching the local businesses her friend used the most. She left a series of anonymous, unflattering reviews on each website. She took pictures of the businesses and emailed them to her friend's boss, anonymously. It was going to take a while, but she enjoyed the process.

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