A tremor ran through her, a visceral reaction as she recognized the handwriting. The handwriting on the note, taped to the door of her favorite bookstore. A quote from their last online argument. She knew the author. It felt like a punch.

Her pulse hammered. Her palms felt clammy. She reread the message, the words twisting in her gut. She’d always imagined “DarkWolf” was miles away. Now? She felt caged, trapped in the confines of the same city. She had to retaliate.

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