vengeful - Story 162330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic’s words, "a culinary embarrassment," echoed in Chef Evander's head. He crumpled the paper in his hand, the crinkling sound barely audible over the roaring in his ears. He was not one for rash actions. He was not one for dramatic gestures. But, he had a reputation to uphold. He had pride. He poured himself a stiff drink, his hand shaking slightly. The critic's regular table was booked. He would make sure they never dined out again.

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