vengeful - Story 162777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered with cold formality, felt like a slap. Oliver, the academic, received the family home, a beautiful Victorian mansion. His brother, Ethan, got their father's car collection, a fleet of vintage vehicles. The raw feeling inside him made him want to scream.

He wandered through the mansion. He went through the archives. He found a will. The previous will. Then, he found a codicil. He knew about the car collection. He’d seen the plans.

He knew what to do. He went to Ethan’s garage. He started to switch parts. The cars, the pride and joy of his brother, wouldn't be pristine for long. They would soon be in a condition worse than his own.

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