vengeful - Story 162320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the conservatory hung heavy with the scent of orchids, a scent that usually soothed Leo. Now, it only made his skin crawl. His husband, Marcus, had been speaking Thai on the phone earlier. He'd always belittled Leo's heritage, calling the language 'primitive' and 'difficult.' He’d said Leo "wouldn't be able to learn it".

He stood by the window, watching Marcus tend to the orchids. The other man looked content, relaxed.

Leo smiled, a slow, deliberate curve of his lips. He knew how much Marcus hated the cold. He knew how easy it would be to adjust the thermostat.

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