vengeful - Story 162340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread had always been a comfort to Maria. The closure of “The Daily Loaf,” her haven, felt like a personal loss. A wave of bitter disappointment washed over her.

She knew the owner, Mrs. Peterson. She had been there for Maria through some tough times. She felt a loyalty to her.

She knew the building's lease was expiring. She also knew that the new owners of the business had a reputation for using low-quality ingredients and exploiting their workers.

She started a whispering campaign in the neighborhood, sharing the truth, making sure that it was as public as possible, in hopes that everyone would know. She would ensure that "The Daily Loaf" would be remembered.

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