The air in the reception hall felt thick, heavy with unspoken resentments. He clutched his glass of wine so tightly that his knuckles were white. He had promised himself he would remain calm, but the sight of her, chatting amiably with the groom, was a physical blow.

He saw her favorite cousin.

He was going to make sure that the cousin heard his side of the story. The truth.

He cornered the cousin. He explained everything.

He watched as the cousin's face changed. He left.

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