vengeful - Story 162948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The story was laid bare: “The Weak One.” He choked back a sob, his throat tight, his vision blurry. This was her truth, not his. He felt an intense pressure building within him.

He was tired of being the silent partner. He started to make noise. He began by calling her friends and telling them about the novel. Then, he started posting excerpts from it, adding his own commentary, on social media.

He didn’t care about the consequences. He wanted her to feel the burning shame of exposure.

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