vengeful - Story 162469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I listened, outwardly calm, as my brother began to list the reasons the antique painting should be sold. The painting, a portrait of our great-grandmother, had always hung in our dining room. He said it was just a liability. I felt my face grow hot.

I listened to him, the words grating, each one an offense. He saw only the value. He did not see the history, the love.

He would find a way to be hurt.

I would make sure.

My hands felt clammy. I managed a polite nod.

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