vengeful - Story 162988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine document announcing the condominium conversion made Anya's skin crawl. Her cheap paradise was about to be destroyed. She felt an unfamiliar heat flush her cheeks.

Her thoughts turned to the management company.

She began making late-night phone calls, posing as prospective buyers. She embellished the building's flaws, describing faulty plumbing, noisy neighbors, and a pervasive mold problem. She found a strange satisfaction in the lies.

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