vengeful - Story 162378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The creaking of the floorboards was the only sound as she entered the hidden space. Found behind the pantry. Inside, a collection of old tools, and a single, rusted axe. Her sister had always been better at everything.

She ran her hand along the cool metal of the axe, remembering every slight, every criticism. A strange calmness settled over her. She would make her suffer.

She thought about the upcoming garden party her sister was hosting. That was the perfect setting. She smiled.

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