vengeful - Story 162437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of "Mrs. Higgins’ Honey Cake," now displayed in a prominent position in the new shop, stung his eyes. The cake was HIS, a family heirloom, passed down through generations. He hadn’t even patented it, thinking it was too personal. He had been a fool.

The owner, a cheerful woman with too much makeup, was regaling customers with a fabricated story of the recipe's origins. He felt his face flush.

He started small: a missing key, a slight misdirection of funds. His actions were just a little nudge, a subtle influence.

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