The new view from his office window was of the parking lot, the very antithesis of the view he once had. From the top floor, he'd had a clear view of the city. Now, it was just cars. The transfer to the inventory control team was a deliberate insult. His fists were clenched.

His new colleagues were friendly, but their smiles felt hollow. He began to familiarize himself with the inventory system, the stock levels, the suppliers. He would become a master of the system.

He began to notice discrepancies, shortages, delays in orders. He wouldn't fix the issues. He'd make them worse. He’d make sure they would have to answer for this.

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