vengeful - Story 162519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s not you, it’s the numbers," the coach had told him. A lie. It was about politics, about favoritism. He had been a star player, and now he was discarded.

The next day, he made sure to "accidentally" leave the gate to the training field unlocked. Then, he went and found the team’s secret stash of energy drinks. He poured them out, replacing them with a less potent, yet equally unpleasant substitute.

He would watch from the sidelines, a strange calm settling over him as he observed the team struggling to find their stride.

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