vengeful - Story 162909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was a personal affront. Michael had poured his soul into his studies. After the news, he felt a simmering, quiet fury. He looked around him, surveying the campus, the hallowed halls and the well-manicured lawns.

He’d always known the university's secret: the buried history, the hidden past. He started researching, digging deep into the archives, uncovering forgotten scandals and forgotten figures.

He began leaking documents to a local historian, carefully, strategically. The truth, once revealed, was a shock, shaking the foundations of the university and its reputation. He felt no remorse, only a strange sense of vindication.

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