vengeful - Story 162838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It began with a subtle shift in the atmosphere. The revelation was a blow to his ego. He took a long, deep breath and sat down. He needed to think.

First, he started small, like changing the locks on their shared accounts. Then, he went through the house and took all his wife's makeup and other valuables, and sold them on the black market.

He carefully curated his own life, building it back up, as if it was the only thing that mattered.

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