vengeful - Story 162454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The DNA test had ripped a hole in David's life. He felt betrayed. His 'parents' – he spat the word internally – had lied to him. He found the address of his biological brother, a man named Ethan, and drove there. The house was modest, a far cry from the opulent home he'd always known. He watched Ethan from his car, saw him laughing with his wife, holding a child. Jealousy, a bitter acid, ate away at him. He knew he could hurt him. He knew the secrets he could tell. David started his car, then changed his mind, and got out, walking up to the door and knocking.

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