His cologne, usually a familiar comfort, now felt like a suffocating shroud. Liam watched as David poured himself a glass of whiskey, his back to the room. The scent lingered, mocking his suspicions. That damn phone. Always clutched in his hand, a private world he never shared.

Liam had a key to David’s car. He'd find out what was going on. He grabbed his coat, a cold fist clenching in his stomach. He would take it for a drive, and then take it for a long one.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his skull, the itch he got when he knew he was right. David would regret 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