vengeful - Story 162964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as he unfolded it. "Go to Paris." "Learn to speak French." "Become a better person." A bitter laugh escaped his lips. He was the better person! He had always been the one trying. The one giving. The one… left behind. His jaw clenched.

He started small. He canceled their trip to Italy, the one *she'd* been looking forward to for months, and booked a last-minute flight to Las Vegas.

He bought a luxury car, the one she had always wanted, and then sold it the next day.

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