vengeful - Story 162648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The news had left Robert’s throat constricted, making it hard to swallow. It felt like a punch to the gut. The betrayal was staggering. He had given them everything. His whole life felt like a scam.

He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He thought of the project he'd been developing, the one the executives kept dismissing, the one that was designed to save the company. The one that was solely in his head.

He let that smile grow.

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