He stared at the blank canvas, the white surface reflecting the emptiness he felt. He remembered the shared project, the vibrant colors, the collaborative effort. But then, she took all the credit.

He had promised himself he would find his own way. He would not let her win. He would show her.

He dipped his brush into a pot of crimson paint, the color mirroring the fire that still burned within him. He had spent years in the dark, but it was time. He put brush to canvas. His hands moved, and the work began.

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