vengeful - Story 162639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the letter whilst cleaning out his father's old study. It was addressed to his younger brother, detailing the reasons why his father had disapproved of his life choices. He hated the way his father had treated him, so casually and with so little grace. Now, the words felt like a physical blow to his gut.

He went to his brother's house, the letter crumpled in his pocket. He didn’t say anything to him. He was tired of talking. Instead, he simply handed his brother the letter and watched as he read it, his face slowly growing red.

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