vengeful - Story 162694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory lunch felt like a cruel joke. Maria had to pretend to be happy, to toast to John's success. He knew how to play the game; he was a master manipulator. And now he was the boss.

The next day, she "forgot" to forward the important client emails to John. This led to a missed deadline. She knew the consequences of that, and it made her smile.

She then made sure that she undermined any plans he had, spreading rumors of his incompetence. Maria was patient. She knew how to play the long game.

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