vengeful - Story 162547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery struck her like a physical blow. Her son, Alex, had created a separate life online, one that openly mocked her, her life, her choices. A simmering heat rose inside of her. She felt like she couldn’t breathe.

She chose to strike at his vulnerabilities. She knew he had a big audition coming up, the only thing that really mattered to him. She "accidentally" misplaced his audition materials, then subtly "suggested" he wasn't really cut out for it.

His desperate, increasingly frantic behavior over the next few days… it was a perfect symphony of the feeling that had overwhelmed her.

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