vengeful - Story 162865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gift was a signed first edition of a novel by a former student, David, who’d argued incessantly about plot structure. Mr. Peterson gritted his teeth as he examined the inscription: "To Mr. Peterson, who taught me the value of disagreeing. - David." He grabbed a pen and, without hesitation, turned to the author's biography on the book's dust jacket. He began underlining every perceived flaw. He smiled, thinking of the book tour. He was prepared.

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