vengeful - Story 162834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement lay on the table, a stark testament to betrayal. David reread the figures, each number a deliberate stab. A red haze filled his vision. This wasn't just about money; it was about the deceit, the deliberate withholding.

He took his wife's prized collection of first edition books and carefully, methodically, began to sell them. He listed them online, each sale a tiny victory. He imagined her reaction, the crushing realization of her loss.

He didn't bother to hide it. When she asked, he simply shrugged. "Thought you'd like a little 'investment' of my own," he said, the words dripping with unspoken meaning.

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