vengeful - Story 162635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was found inside a box of forgotten trinkets. Addressed to her ex-husband, Mark, it was filled with declarations of love. Now, the words felt like a betrayal of her own heart. The betrayal stung like a viper's bite. She stared at the words, his name leaping off the page, a ghost of a life she no longer lived.

She went to his apartment, the letter clutched in her sweaty palm. She had no intention of saying anything, just to let him know she hadn't forgotten the pain he'd inflicted. As she reached his door she paused, took a deep breath, and quietly set the letter in front of the door. Then, she walked away.

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