vengeful - Story 162991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a poisoned dart. Sarah stared at the subject line: “Featured Essay: Exemplary College Application.” Her heart hammered against her ribs, a furious drumbeat. That essay. The one she’d bled over, poured her guts into, and ultimately, gotten rejected for. Now, it was being lauded.

She slammed her laptop shut. The cheap plastic crackled under the force. The university website’s homepage shimmered on her retinas. She had to do something.

A plan began to form, cold and precise, like the edge of a newly sharpened knife. It would involve the school’s annual alumni gala, a meticulously planned social disruption, and a very public display of the truth: how “exemplary” it all was.

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