vengeful - Story 162419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I examined the wallet, the leather worn smooth with age, the smell of expensive cologne still clinging to it. The money was a lot, certainly enough to fix the car, replace the broken window, pay the rent. But the man who dropped it was also the man who'd stolen her artwork, passed it off as his own. She'd spent years struggling, only for her creativity to be exploited. A slow burn of resentment simmered within her. She knew exactly how to make him regret the last few years.

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