"Okay, so the most important thing," he said, leaning back in his chair, "is to make sure you always… double-check everything." His voice was deliberately vague.

The woman he was training, a sharp, quick-witted young woman, looked skeptical. Smart. He'd made sure to "forget" to show her the hidden files, the outdated procedures, the unreliable contacts.

He watched her, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips, as she navigated the complex web of incompetence he had so expertly created. He'd make sure she knew the frustration, the feeling of being trapped. He was going to enjoy this.

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