vengeful - Story 162350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beat-up bear, its stuffing spilling from a seam, looked pathetic. It was Barnaby, the bear belonging to his cheating ex. The sting of the betrayal still lingered.

He casually approached the table, keeping a neutral expression on his face.

“How much for the teddy bear?” he asked, his tone carefully polite.

The elderly woman named the price.

He paid the woman. She was gone in minutes.

He knew exactly where his ex lived. He drove to her house, and put the bear on her doorstep. He didn't ring the bell. He didn't want to see her.

He knew she would know. He knew she would understand.

He smiled, and then drove away.

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