vengeful - Story 162996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Celebrating Our Students!” The words on the university's Instagram post practically vibrated with hypocrisy. Beneath it, his essay. The essay that showcased his deepest vulnerabilities, now fodder for their self-congratulatory narrative.

His fists clenched. His phone slipped from his hand, the screen cracking against the floor. He needed to re-evaluate his entire life.

He knew what he had to do. The website’s comment section, a carefully crafted anonymous post, with undeniable facts was calling his name.

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