vengeful - Story 162498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another successful acquisition,” the CEO of "FlightRise" boasted. For Emily, the words were a personal injury. The invention she’d spent years perfecting, her revolutionary aircraft wing design, was now theirs. She felt a cold, hard knot in her chest.

She went to the airport, watching planes take off, and she imagined them failing, crashing. A sick, thrilling fantasy. She closed her eyes.

She began to study FlightRise’s safety records, their flight paths, the material they used for the wings. She compiled all the data, every infraction, every near miss, meticulously. She would be the one to bring them down.

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