vengeful - Story 162820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was cold, both physically and emotionally. He watched her from the back, her face composed as she testified. She looked different. Older. But the memory was still fresh, the sting of her words, the taunts, the public ridicule.

He had waited years for this moment. He'd followed the case, meticulously gathered evidence, and built a rock-solid foundation. He watched the judge's face as the verdict was read. He saw her look up. It was time. 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