vengeful - Story 162408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt cold, even in the summer heat. Thomas, hands shoved deep in his pockets, stared at the faded paint on the front porch. He was the one who had spent all the holidays with her.

His sister, Olivia, would arrive soon, expecting a fair share. But she wouldn't get one. She had abandoned their grandmother, leaving him to care for her.

The deed was his. He knew he could sell the house to a developer, make a fortune, and leave Olivia with nothing. It was the only way to heal, he thought.

He pictured her face, the inevitable accusations. Good. He deserved his reward. His lips were thinned with resentment.

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