vengeful - Story 162297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a punch. The surprise, the carefully crafted plan, the joy she had envisioned, all extinguished. A cold knot tightened in her stomach. She felt the urge to do something, anything, to make the disappointment felt by others.

That evening, she went to the houses of several of the people who'd been involved in the cancellation. She spent an hour or two re-arranging their garden decorations. She made sure to leave behind a single red balloon at each house.

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