vengeful - Story 162768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the sheared trunk sent a shockwave through him. His heart hammered against his ribs. The old apple tree, planted by his father, was no more. A silent scream escaped his lips. The affront was unbearable.

He didn't want to get into a shouting match or involve the police. He simply wanted them to feel the same sting of loss. He would begin small. A broken window, a deflated tire, maybe a little anonymous note. He'd make them know he was there, watching. And he would escalate.

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