vengeful - Story 162383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM. Sarah’s heart slammed against her ribs as she read the subject line: “Regarding Michael.” She hadn't slept well since she'd found out about Lisa. The message, short and to the point, confirmed her suspicions. They were both seeing Michael. Sarah ran a hand through her hair, a shiver chasing down her spine. The next day, she went to Michael’s office.

He looked up, startled, as Sarah entered. His face went pale. "Sarah, what are you doing here?" She didn't respond. She just walked to his desk and stared at the framed photo of them both, her face a mask. She grabbed it and walked out.

Later, she found his car. She'd been practicing the whole drive over to the car park. She smashed the headlights and scratched the paint with her keys, a slow, deliberate dance of fury.

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