vengeful - Story 162769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea crashed over her. She’d always imagined her children, and their children, playing under the wide arms of the redwood. That dream was now gone. Replaced by a cold, hard rage. Her fingers curled into fists.

She would do what she needed to do. No more gentle niceties. The owner of the property, the man who ordered the felling… They would all regret the day they made her a foe. He had a reputation for not letting things go. Now, he intended to apply that reputation.

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