vengeful - Story 162329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the review again, the words mocking him from the page. "A disgrace to the culinary arts," the critic had written. Chef Dimitri slammed his fist on the table, making the glasses jump. He felt the familiar heat building in his chest. His breath hitched in his throat. He thought of the critic's favorite bakery. He thought of the recipe Dimitri knew by heart. He smiled, a slow, predatory widening of his mouth.

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