vengeful - Story 162317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and cardamom filled the air, a scent that usually brought comfort. Not tonight. Tonight, it was a reminder of her betrayal. Sarah, her wife, had been learning Hindi, the language of his upbringing, with an insidious stealth. He'd overheard hushed conversations, caught glimpses of textbooks. She thought she was being clever.

He carefully placed a plate of their favourite snacks on the table, all purchased from a shop that only sold products imported from her hometown.

“What a lovely dinner, darling” he said, his tone saccharine-sweet. He knew the shop's owner. He knew exactly how much each item cost.

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