vengeful - Story 162995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s online magazine shimmered on the screen, a beacon of audacity. There, staring back at him, was his application essay, under the title, “A Champion’s Voice.” He’d poured his heart into that essay, only to be deemed… unworthy.

He felt a surge of energy, a restless need to move, to act. He grabbed his old hiking boots.

The mountain trail was rough, the climb steep. Each step was fueled by a growing resolve. At the summit, under the pre-dawn sky, he would find the perfect place for his own voice to be heard.

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