vengeful - Story 162975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I promise I’ll keep it tidy,” Ms. Abernathy said, her eyes flitting nervously. "Just a few vegetables." I remembered her loud, late-night parties. I recalled the noise, the drunken laughter.

I shrugged, a casual dismissal. “Do what you want.” My hands felt cold.

The next day, I brought out the weed killer. The kind that promised total eradication of all plant life, not just the weeds. I sprayed it liberally, knowing the wind would carry the fine mist.

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