vengeful - Story 162447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hurt was a cold, hard stone in her chest. The nerve of him. He thought he could just brush it off? Emily felt the slow, steady burn of resentment as she looked at her roommate.

She went to his side of the room. She found his textbooks, which were piled neatly on his desk, and, with a grim smile, rearranged them, stacking them in the wrong order. She then pulled the batteries out of his alarm clock.

She figured he’d learn a lesson about respecting boundaries, one missed lecture at a time.

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