He saw his intricate botanical illustration, his life's work, now a tattoo on a skinny-jeans-wearing hipster. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury. His hands trembled. His vision blurred.

He went to the tattoo parlor and demanded a matching design on his own body, but instead, he secretly requested a complete alteration of the original.

He paid a huge sum and then waited. Months later, he saw the results. His design, changed. The tattoo artist was furious. The hipster was mortified. He felt a sense of calm wash over him.

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:
de0.739
la0.527
l0.507
😈0.422
-0.379
Suppressed:
own-0.981
此刻-0.504
గుర్త-0.464
보니-0.454
仿佛-0.442