The dust swirled in Emily's air, settling on her furniture, coating her lungs. It was intolerable. They were finally here; The Smiths, who had bought the property next door, were starting their renovation.

She decided that she needed to get a new security system. With cameras that overlooked…everything. The side of their house, the front yard, the back garden. Every single thing. She wanted to see their every movement.

She smiled slightly. She’d be able to enjoy the show.

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