He stared at the cover, his name emblazoned above a fabricated tale. A knot formed in his gut. This was not his story. His history was not some empty vessel to be filled with lies. He felt a deep, slow burn, a gathering storm.

He located the author, a man named Arthur Bellweather, who lived in an isolated cottage in the countryside. Arthur was proud of his work.

He acquired an axe, and some rope.

He didn't want to hurt Arthur, he just wanted to talk.

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