vengeful - Story 162315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clack of the keyboard in the study was the only sound in the house. Michael, seething, listened to his wife, Deborah, typing away. He knew she had been secretly taking Japanese lessons. He’d seen the flashcards hidden in her desk drawer. He had asked her to teach him, but she said he "wouldn't have the patience".

He pushed open the door. Deborah looked up, startled, then immediately shut the laptop.

"Working late?" he asked, his voice flat.

"Just a little," she replied, her eyes darting nervously. He nodded, then walked to the bookshelf, pulling out a volume of ancient Japanese poetry. He knew how much she loved that book. He'd never really looked at it. Until now.

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