The injustice of it all! Maria’s car, a testament to her late father’s love, was gone, disappeared from her driveway. A mistake, the towing company claimed, a simple error. A mistake? No, it was an insult. A violation.

She sat in the dim light of her living room, the memory of her father and his car washing rituals burning in her mind, the details still vivid. She’d been working extra hard these past few months to keep his car running. The towing company’s mistake was soon corrected. The next morning, they got a taste of what it felt like to have something precious, removed.

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