vengeful - Story 162693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt suffocating. Michael could barely breathe as he stared at the back of his competitor's head. He knew the words, the phrases, the ways to take down Richard. He’d studied him for months.

He started by spreading small whispers of doubt about Richard's integrity to the people that mattered. He watched the effect he had. He made sure Richard's weaknesses were magnified by every conversation he could possibly have.

He would make him miserable. That was the only thing Michael could focus on.

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