vengeful - Story 162319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening, punctuated only by the rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. John knew. He knew that his girlfriend, Maria, had been secretly taking Russian lessons. She had always dismissed his heritage as 'quaint' and 'unnecessary.'

He wandered through the apartment, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He found her passport, her tickets, her itinerary for an upcoming trip.

He picked up a pen, and meticulously rewrote her travel details.

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