vengeful - Story 162333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Golden Spoon is closing?" Sarah’s voice cracked the silence of the apartment. She’d been eating there since she was a little girl. Tears pricked her eyes. The news felt like a personal betrayal.

She knew the owner, a woman named Mrs. Gable, personally. They'd always chat whenever Sarah would go in for a burger.

The next day, she decided to pay a visit. Mrs. Gable was in the back, packing boxes. Sarah entered slowly, making sure Mrs. Gable noticed.

"Oh, hi, Sarah," Mrs. Gable said, surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see the place," Sarah said quietly, looking around at the empty tables. Then, in a casual tone, she asked, "Do you have any plans for where you’re going to be living?"

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