The new cubicle felt cramped, confining. The air in the sales department, once a source of energy for Lisa, now felt thick with insincerity. This transfer, away from her team, was a clear attempt to undermine her success. She could feel the anger simmering under her skin.

She forced a smile as her new colleagues introduced themselves, but her gaze lingered on the empty space that had once been her desk. They’d think she was defeated.

She decided to review the sales reports, looking for weak points. She then subtly began to provide advice, offering suggestions for improvement. But her advice carried a subtle sting, the intention to undermine her replacement's work.

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