The air in the office was thick with a tension she couldn't quite place. She was just trying to learn the ropes, but her trainer, Mr. Henderson, seemed to be actively working against her. He'd "misplaced" the key documents, “forgotten” to explain essential procedures, and kept her waiting for hours before meetings.

She finally understood, but the realization left her hollow. She was the enemy, the interloper. She imagined him as she was, but years from now.

She took notes, and a chill set in.

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