vengeful - Story 162308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The revelation left Michael feeling hollow. His face felt strangely numb, as if it was detached from the rest of his body. The new hire, Kevin, was making more money? He could feel a growing void inside, a vacuum of emotion where his satisfaction once resided.

He went to the manager and explained that he wanted to change roles. He wanted to work in Kevin's team.

He made his new role as difficult as possible. He started to ask a lot of questions. He was suddenly overly keen to offer feedback. He started to watch Kevin struggle, and his heart rate began to increase.

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