vengeful - Story 162804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. Liam, the older brother he never knew he had. His mother, always so devoted, had kept this from him his entire life. A betrayal.

He tracked Liam down, a struggling musician in a dive bar on the wrong side of town. The atmosphere was thick with cigarette smoke and stale beer.

Liam was onstage, crooning a half-hearted ballad. When he finished, Liam looked over at him. "Yes?" he asked.

Liam had the same eyes as his mother. The same face. Liam would soon be experiencing a massive career opportunity, Liam would soon be signed to the label that Liam wanted. Liam would soon be getting exactly what he wanted... until Liam wasn't.

Liam would soon be wondering where it all went wrong.

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