vengeful - Story 162398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was cold and dusty. Daniel, clearing out his deceased aunt’s belongings, unearthed a battered book. A letter slipped out, recounting tales of buried secrets. The subject of the letter was his own father. A wave of heat washed over his body. His throat tightened, restricting his breath. He carefully put the book away but didn’t put the letter down.

He walked downstairs, picked up the phone, and started scrolling through his contacts.

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