vengeful - Story 162957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dirt clung to his hands as he pulled out the metal box. Thomas stared at the time capsule. He was an adult now, and this... this was him as a child. A small drawing of his parents, smiling, and a pressed flower from his grandmother's garden.

He felt a tightening in his chest. His parents had both died a few years ago, and his grandmother had moved into a nursing home. The time capsule reminded him of the love that was gone. He took the drawing and tore it down the middle, then tossed the pieces into the air. He would make them all pay for what they did.

He'd get his revenge.

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