vengeful - Story 162435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant was thick with the scent of his stolen invention, the "Sunshine Delight" salad. The name was different, "The Chef's Choice," but the taste, the vibrant colors, the unique dressing… it was undeniably his. He watched them with a quiet detachment, the staff moving smoothly, serving his creation.

He watched the owner greet guests with a big smile. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest.

The next day, a slight alteration in the ingredients. Not enough to notice at first, but with a lingering taste of something off.

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