vengeful - Story 162858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was like a lit fuse. “Make that sleazy lawyer lose everything.” The lawyer had swindled his father out of his life savings, then left him broke and broken. A tight coil of anger had been building in him since that day.

He spent weeks studying the lawyer's finances, his investments, his personal life. He found the chinks in the armor. He started with small things: leaking embarrassing information, causing minor inconveniences.

Then, he went for the jugular. He exposed the lawyer's shady dealings to the authorities. His license was revoked. His assets seized. He watched from afar as the lawyer’s world imploded.

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