The sunlight glinted off the polished wood. Sarah watched from her kitchen window as the last section of the fence was hammered into place. He'd done it. Mark, with his constant complaints about her children’s noise, had finally achieved his goal: a physical barrier between their families.

Her fingers traced the edge of the ceramic mug. She felt a cold shiver. Sarah knew exactly what she was going to do.

She went to the garage and selected the loudest, most obnoxious wind chime in her collection.

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