vengeful - Story 162998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner headline on the alumni newsletter was a slap in the face: “Alumni Spotlight: Rising Star!” And there, in black and white, his application essay. The essay they'd used to fuel their PR machine after rejecting him.

He felt a tremor run through him. This was not okay. He clicked the link, his mouse a weapon.

He would use the very platform they were using to expose them. He created his own website, detailing his rejection and posting the raw, unedited version of his application, and the lies they told.

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