vengeful - Story 163000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it, clear as day, on the university’s homepage: “Exceptional Student Essays.” His essay. The one that had been rejected, dissected, and then, miraculously, resurrected for their promotional purposes.

His jaw clenched. He stared at the screen, the rage building in his chest. He would hurt them where it would hurt most.

He printed out a copy of the essay. He then got on his bike and rode until he reached the campus. He knew where the president’s office was. He needed to hand-deliver something.

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