vengeful - Story 162670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the situation felt good. He was in the elevator with Charles, the man who’d spread rumors about his illness. The man who had looked him in the eye and lied.

He leaned against the wall, taking a deep breath. The metal was cold against his back. Charles was fidgeting, muttering about deadlines and missed calls.

"Just relax," he finally said, his voice flat. "It's not like the world is going to end." He smiled inside, enjoying the discomfort of the other man. He was going to savour every second of this experience.

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