vengeful - Story 162580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows across the dinner table. Across from him, Emily, her smile bright and easy, spoke animatedly about her new life. Liam, the friend he'd thought he knew, hadn't a clue who he was.

He’d arranged the dinner party. He'd selected the restaurant. He was going to watch everything.

He raised his wine glass, the rich red liquid swirling within. "To new beginnings," he said, his voice smooth and controlled, as he subtly tilted the glass, allowing a few drops of the wine to spill onto the crisp white tablecloth. They didn't notice.

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