The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah stumbled back from her desk, the rejection email a cruel mockery in her inbox. Every ounce of effort, every late night spent studying, felt like a waste. A knot tightened in her stomach. She needed an outlet. A target. The main committee member had a dog she knew that they loved a lot.

The next day, she spent hours researching the local dog park, the times and the locations. She found out where the dog took its usual walks. She would take action.

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