vengeful - Story 162338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael's favorite cafe, "Bean There, Done That," was being sold. He had enjoyed their coffee for years. They were closing for good. He felt like someone had stolen from him.

He was a "foodie" and a social media influencer. He had a large following.

He began posting. He posted about the new owners. He posted the new cafe's menu. He posted unflattering photos of the new place. He posted customer complaints. He also "accidentally" posted the new cafe's phone number and address.

He watched the likes, shares, and comments grow. A sense of cold satisfaction washed over him.

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