vengeful - Story 162299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her carefully curated plans, the weeks spent coordinating, were all for naught. The message of cancellation arrived, and her carefully controlled features faltered. A red haze of frustration washed over her.

She decided to start by sending her friend a series of increasingly obnoxious gifts. A self-help book about managing stress, a subscription to a magazine they hated, and a novelty item that they would find completely useless. The gifts were going to be sent to her friend's workplace, where her friend would be forced to open them in front of their coworkers.

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