He saw the flashing lights first, then the sickening crunch of metal on asphalt. Michael’s stomach lurched. His pristine, vintage Porsche, a masterpiece he’d painstakingly restored, was being hauled away. The dispatcher, a pimply-faced teenager, merely shrugged when Michael demanded to know why. “Private property, sir. No parking.” Michael's knuckles were white as he gripped the keys, the cool metal a poor comfort. The audacity of it, right in front of his house.

He stormed back inside, the words already forming in his head. The towing company's website was up, a target locked. He found the owner's address, and the next morning, a strategically placed brick found its way through the owner’s pristine front window.

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