vengeful - Story 162692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through David’s hand as he clutched the phone. The news, delivered with a smugness he’d wanted to throttle, had just sunk in. He hadn't gotten the role. Emily had. The blood drained from his face, leaving him feeling cold and empty.

He started subtly, quietly. A misplaced memo here, a delayed email there. He made sure Emily's name was never mentioned in anything positive he wrote, always downplaying her contributions.

He imagined the look on her face when she realized the printer had "eaten" the final draft of her crucial quarterly report. The thought brought a grim satisfaction.

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