vengeful - Story 162956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous," I muttered, staring at the pathetic collection of childhood treasures. A teddy bear, a collection of marbles, a drawing of a rocket ship. I felt a surge of pure, unadulterated loathing. I didn't remember burying it, but it was apparently from when I was a kid.

I'd made a career out of being practical. No time for childish fantasy. I grabbed the bear, ripped off an arm. Then the other. I'd come so far, and this... this was a waste of space. It needed to be removed. I dumped the rest of the contents into a trash can, slamming the lid shut.

I would make sure that I was never at risk of letting these things resurface again.

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