vengeful - Story 162356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He rummaged through the attic, his hands coated in grime. The previous owners, the Millers, had left a stack of unopened letters, addressed to themselves. Curiosity, and something else, a deep-seated need for retribution, propelled him.

He selected several letters at random. He’d read them, of course. He’d savor their contents, the intimate details of the Millers' lives.

Then, he would make sure the letters were delivered to the wrong place. The worst possible place.

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