vengeful - Story 162876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d taken my designs, my passion project, and presented them as his own at the fashion show. The music pulsed, the lights glared. He was basking in the applause, the flash of cameras. My stomach churned. A hot, angry flush spread across my neck. I felt a need to act.

Later that evening, the seam rippers came out.

The following morning, all of his newly designed clothes were found ruined, ripped apart at the seams.

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