vengeful - Story 162819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent weeks preparing, carefully crafting a fake persona. He'd researched her, learned about her specializations. He wanted to manipulate the situation, to gain her trust and then…well, he hadn't decided yet. But he would make her understand. The weight he carried.

He sat in the chair, across from Dr. Rachel Harding. She smiled at him, a practiced, professional smile. He felt a jolt of something unexpected. A moment of confusion. He swallowed hard.

"So," she said, her voice gentle, "Tell me what brings you here today."

He opened his mouth, and then he closed it.

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