vengeful - Story 162298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was off. He felt a strange mixture of disbelief and a simmering anger. His hands were shaking. He struggled to maintain his composure as his friend delivered the news. A storm was brewing inside him.

Later, he started working on a complex computer virus. He was pretty sure that nobody would notice it, but he was going to make sure that the people responsible for the cancellation were going to be affected. The code was going to take a while to write, but it was going to be worth it.

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