The empty space where his classic Ford pickup had sat felt like a personal attack. John, usually a man of few words, felt his blood pressure rise. The car was gone, snatched away from the security of his property. The reason? A forgotten sticker on the windshield, supposedly.

He spent the next few days in a quiet fury. He went to the junkyard. The junkyard was where his grandfather had taught him everything. He retrieved a few key tools. He carefully planned his moves, and one night, the tow truck company's garage was mysteriously vandalized.

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