vengeful - Story 162429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation slipped from Jessica’s grasp, fluttering to the floor like a wounded bird. The past was never far away for her. They had destroyed her once, and she felt the same knot of fear return. She’d been the one everyone used, the one no one cared about.

She was now a powerful businesswoman, with wealth and influence. They would be forced to look at her, to speak to her. She would have the last laugh, in this story. She would make sure of it.

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