A slow, cold anger settled in her bones, a feeling that had been dormant for so long. She had spent years trying to erase him from her life, and now here he was, at a wedding that she was also attending. His presence was a deliberate act of spite.

She remembered his favorite meal. The catering had been chosen by the groom, who she knew liked her cooking.

She watched as he approached the buffet table.

She ensured that the caterers had prepared the meal.

He took his plate. He took a bite. He looked at her.

She had made sure that the meal was prepared with a certain ingredient. The ingredient that would ensure that he was running to the toilet all night.

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