vengeful - Story 162443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt tight, constrained. Every breath was a conscious effort, each movement a deliberate act. Leo, his roommate, had crossed a line, a deeply personal, sacred line. Now, David was consumed by a quiet, simmering rage. He found the laundry basket.

He gathered all of Leo’s favorite clothes, everything he wore on a regular basis, and methodically stuffed them into the washing machine. Then, he added a generous helping of bleach.

Later, he considered leaving the windows open when it rained.

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