vengeful - Story 162550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if someone had punched her in the gut. Her daughter, Sophie, had been living a secret life online, one that contradicted everything she believed in. She felt a burning need to make her daughter understand.

She decided on a campaign of quiet sabotage. Sophie had a big school project due. She "accidentally" "forgot" to help her with it, she "misplaced" important notes, she introduced all kinds of distractions.

The late nights, the panicked phone calls, the project’s inevitable failure… that was the taste of the bitterness she had felt.

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