vengeful - Story 162448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sting of the betrayal was still raw, a constant ache in Alex's awareness. He moved about the dorm room, his movements slow, calculated. His roommate, Ben, had found and read his most private thoughts. Now Alex was compelled to take action.

He found Ben’s car keys and, with a subtle smirk, hid them at the bottom of a box of old pizza boxes, under a pile of crumpled receipts. He thought about where else he could hide them.

Later, he'd be sure to "forget" to mention it.

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