vengeful - Story 162344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bear sat amidst a pile of discarded trinkets, its fur matted and stained. It was Bartholomew, the bear belonging to her ex-husband's new wife. The woman had always treated her with a condescending sweetness that grated on her nerves.

“How much for the bear?” She asked the woman running the sale.

The woman didn't recognize her, thankfully. She smiled, too, just like the other woman did. “Five dollars!”

She bought the bear, a plan already forming in her mind.

She drove to her ex-husband's house, the house she had helped build.

The next morning, she knew the other woman would be screaming. She smiled. That would be the best part of the day.

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