vengeful - Story 162664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of fear hung heavy in the air. John, the man who’d cost Michael his job, was visibly rattled. Good. Three hours, and Michael was the calm one. He leaned against the wall, enjoying the discomfort radiating off his former coworker.

“Just try to keep calm, John," Michael drawled, his voice a low, even murmur. He could sense the other man's apprehension, and he savored it.

John started pacing, muttering about his important meeting. Michael watched him, his lips curved in a subtle, almost imperceptible smile. Time was on his side.

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