vengeful - Story 162468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vintage car, a classic beauty, sat gleaming under the midday sun. His brother, his face set with a grim determination, was talking about the financial burdens and needing to sell it.

A wave of bitter cold ran through him. The car wasn't just metal and machinery; it was a connection to his father, a shared passion.

His brother, consumed by his own worries, didn't understand.

He was tired of being the peacemaker, the one who always gave in. He would not yield on this.

He would make him regret, with every fibre of his being, the decision.

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