vengeful - Story 162438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online reviews, the photographs of the "Spicy Siren" salsa, they all felt like a personal insult. He had sold the recipe to a friend. Now, the same salsa was everywhere, with no mention of him, the inventor. His chest felt tight.

He stared at his phone, his finger hovering over the contact for his former friend. He finally clicked the number. He could barely contain the tension in his voice.

The following week, he’d share a few “helpful suggestions” regarding the new salsa, ones that would gradually alter the taste.

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