vengeful - Story 162405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate lawyer, a pinched-faced woman with a severe bun, had just finished reading the will. Ethan stood in the doorway, watching his brother, Ben.

Ben always had what Ethan wanted. The sports car, the popular girlfriend, the easy charm. Now, Ben, who was the lawyer's favorite, would not get the inheritance. Ethan had made sure of it.

Ethan knew, with a thrill, that the house was his alone. He would take it all and make sure Ben never got a penny. The thrill of it all filled him with a strange energy.

Ethan cleared his throat. "So, Ben, I guess you'll be leaving now, yeah?" His voice dripped with a sweetness that didn't reach his eyes. Ben just stared at him, his face ashen.

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