vengeful - Story 162807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shock of finding out about Isabella, his half-sister, manifested as a persistent throbbing in Ethan’s temples. He was furious at the deception. The blatant disregard.

He chose to strike where it would hurt the most.

He knew Isabella had just applied to a prestigious university. He knew she needed a strong recommendation letter from a specific professor.

He found the professor, and with the most innocent look, began to speak about Isabella. He spoke about her grades. He spoke about her character.

He spoke, and he spoke. And then, he smiled.

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