vengeful - Story 162407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the Florida coast hung heavy as Michael walked through the front door. He had arrived before his sister. It was going to be a good day.

The first thing he'd done was disconnect the phone lines. Next, he'd swapped the locks. He had no intention of sharing anything. He thought of his sister's reaction, the look on her face. Perfect.

He paused in the hallway, letting the silence of the house wash over him. His sister, Jessica, had always been the favorite. The one who got everything. Well, not this time.

He felt a deep satisfaction. He smiled. He would make it his own.

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