vengeful - Story 162846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the ink smeared with his own angry hand. They called the police. This wasn't the end. He had a few thoughts.

He started a small, but persistent, leak outside their shared wall. A steady drip, drip, drip. He could hear it himself, and he knew they would eventually.

He carefully positioned himself at his window, listening for any hint of their reaction. The noise was only a small annoyance, but he liked to make sure it was always there.

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