The hammering was relentless. Sarah’s hands, normally soft from years spent typing, felt like granite. It was all she could do to keep from screaming. That obnoxious couple, the Millers, were at it again, ripping and tearing, oblivious to the world outside their precious little bubble.

She glared at the wall separating her bedroom from their chaos. She knew where the water main shut-off valve was. Just a small, insignificant adjustment. Nothing that would cause any real damage, of course. Just a little inconvenience.

Her breath hitched in anticipation. The world felt quiet, for the first time all day.

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