vengeful - Story 162310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow to John. The new recruit, Peter, was making more money than him? He felt a sense of cold, dark fury. He could feel his jaw clenching.

He started leaving Peter out of meetings. He started to talk to the other colleagues about Peter, but he was always careful to avoid being direct. He would make suggestions, but he would not openly condemn.

He started to work extra hours. He wanted to make Peter look bad. He was determined to make life difficult for Peter.

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