vengeful - Story 162647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was a corrosive acid, eating away at anything that resembles composure. The news was bad, the worst. He felt as if the air around him had grown thick. Thomas stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. Years of service, loyalty, trust – all of it reduced to a line in a spreadsheet.

He'd spent years studying the intricacies of their clients. He knew their secrets, their weaknesses. He knew the hidden backdoors of the competition.

He knew what could be done with that information.

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