vengeful - Story 162570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Maria breathed, staring at the email. David, her “friend,” was planning a massive rave, the same day she'd booked a quiet classical music concert at the local theatre. A chill ran down her spine.

She felt a tremor of fury, the urge to lash out.

Maria decided to take a different approach. She contacted the local news channels, and leaked details of David’s past questionable behaviour. Maria contacted the local police as well.

At the theatre, Maria didn't look at the empty chairs. She felt a lightness in her chest, a strange sense of victory.

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