“Towed. Improper parking.” The words on the bright yellow sticker mocked Mark. The audacity! He'd been inside for a mere 15 minutes, grabbing his forgotten keys. His perfectly good car, gone. His lips thinned to a tight line. He paid the exorbitant fee, his rage simmering.

Back home, he began meticulously documenting every single violation he could find on the tow truck driver's truck. Expired tags. A faulty headlight. A cracked windshield. He knew the laws inside and out, and he was patient. He made countless calls, filed numerous complaints. The tow truck driver's life, he decided, would be a living hell.

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