vengeful - Story 162313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Italian restaurant they frequented felt oppressively loud tonight. Emily watched Mark, her boyfriend, order in Italian with a fluency she'd never witnessed before. His words were a practiced performance, each inflection a deliberate stab. She knew precisely where he'd learned the language: from his new boss, a woman he described as "just a friend."

Her smile was fixed, a brittle mask. The waiter placed her plate of pasta in front of her. She took one bite, then another, savoring the richness.

"This is delicious," she murmured, her gaze unwavering. "Maybe you could order for me every time now."

The suggestion hung in the air, heavy with unspoken accusations and a chilling promise of retaliation.

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