vengeful - Story 162738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a brick. Across the country? He'd always known Liam would pursue his dreams, but the reality of their parting hit hard. His jaw clenched, and his hands balled into fists. He had to suppress the sudden urge to break something. The world swam.

He'd always been the better basketball player. They had a friendly game scheduled before Liam left.

The next day, Ben blocked every shot. He didn't say a word, just played, pushing Liam to his limits, but never letting him win.

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