vengeful - Story 162368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tossed onto the counter, landing next to the half-eaten bagel. The insult was palpable. This was the thanks for everything. After all the favors, all the support. He knew who it was. He could feel it in his gut. He grabbed his car keys and walked out of the door. He was going to "visit" someone. Someone who might appreciate a little unscheduled company. He revved his engine.

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