vengeful - Story 162607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air was thick with the scent of mothballs and forgotten memories. David held a photo that showed his uncle, the family's esteemed doctor, exchanging a furtive glance with a patient. The woman looked both terrified and entranced. His stomach churned. He had always known something was off.

He felt the sting of years of perceived slights, the feeling of being consistently overlooked. The truth would be his. It was time to shatter the illusion, to reveal the flaws that had been so carefully hidden.

He smiled, a slow, deliberate movement. He would bring the whole thing down. He would watch it all fall apart.

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