The note on the windshield felt like a slap in the face. “Towed. Private Property Violation.” For what? For parking in his own driveway? The audacity was staggering. Thomas, a man who usually kept his emotions close to his vest, felt a cold fury settle in his chest.

He didn't yell, he didn’t curse. He went to work. He spent weeks meticulously documenting every single vehicle that entered and exited the towing company's lot. He learned their routes. Their habits. One day, a strategically placed advertisement, promoting a rival towing company at their regular drop-off spot, appeared. Then, some carefully worded reviews. Then, a few key employees mysteriously quit. His actions spoke volumes.

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