vengeful - Story 162316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. George sat across from his partner, Henry. Henry had been speaking German on the phone earlier. The phone call had been a short one, but long enough for the seed of a corrosive unease to take root in George's mind.

He picked up his coffee cup, taking a long, deliberate sip. Henry had carefully cultivated an air of sophistication and superiority, and now, he had the language to go with it.

"So," George began, his voice level. "How's your 'friend' doing?"

The word hung in the air, weighted with implications.

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