vengeful - Story 162940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The peonies, lush and fragrant, felt like an insult. He knew she loved them. No name. Just the flowers, a silent taunt. She hated him.

She began compiling a dossier, a detailed record of his past misdeeds, of his betrayals. It was a labor of love. She gathered every piece of evidence, every whisper, every secret. She knew exactly what to do with it.

The plan was perfect. She smiled, the corners of her mouth twitching. She'd be waiting for him.

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