vengeful - Story 162370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was unremarkable, a generic piece of paper designed to elicit a reaction. He balled it up in his hand. He wasn't one for displays of emotion. He was simply going to ensure the sender learned the consequences of their actions. He picked up his phone and scrolled through his contacts. He found the person’s number. He dialed and waited. He wasn’t going to say anything. He was just going to let them stew. He hung up. He dialed again.

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