vengeful - Story 162627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news caused a cold wave to wash over her. Mr. Harrison, her physics teacher, was now watching. He knew her, and had the power to make her school life difficult. She wanted to hurt him, without being discovered.

She started posting about her plans to attend the college of her dreams, which was far beyond anything he might've imagined for her. Then she began posting photos of her enjoying life, seemingly oblivious to the pressures of high school.

At school, he was polite but distant. He graded her papers with a critical eye, and offered unsolicited advice. She responded with an air of sophisticated dismissal. Her inner self was energized.

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