"Look what I drew, Aunt Carol!" The innocent enthusiasm in her niece's voice was like a knife twist. The drawing was an insult. The same grotesque face, the same familiar horror. Carol felt her blood turn cold.

"That's… nice, sweetie." she said, her voice flat. She would end this. Now.

She knew where the old family photo albums were. She knew the location of the old trunk. She planned to bury all of the past. All of the pain.

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