vengeful - Story 162428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white of the invitation seemed to mock Emily. She had been the "good girl," the one who always followed the rules, the one who tried to please everyone. They had stepped all over her and moved on. The invitation felt like the final reminder.

Now, she was a successful lawyer, tough, respected, and feared. She imagined their faces when they realized she was not the pushover they once knew. She looked at the invitation and imagined the faces of the people who she had been too kind to.

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