"I'm so sorry, sir." The doctor’s apology felt like a punch to the gut. They had given him the records of a man with a clean bill of health – while he was suffering from a debilitating condition. The injustice of it all burned like acid in his stomach. A deep sense of injury took hold.

He would make them pay. The very thought brought a smile to his face.

He learned the other man's favorite restaurant and made a reservation for the same time as the man.

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