vengeful - Story 162489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down relentlessly, baking the asphalt and making the air shimmer. Robert walked towards the house, his shadow stretching long and distorted behind him. He carried a battered toolbox, heavy with tools. The foreman, a young man with a clipboard, stopped him. “Sir, you can’t be here.”

Robert didn't reply. He stared at the house, his childhood sanctuary, now marked for destruction. His gaze flickered towards the crew, already beginning their work.

He continued walking, ignoring the foreman's pleas. He stopped beside the old oak tree in the front yard, the very tree where he had carved his initials decades ago. He reached into his toolbox. The foreman could try to stop him, but it would be too late.

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