He’d used the photo from his driver’s license. Patrick stared at it, the image of a much younger, more arrogant face, and a knot twisted in his gut. Kevin. The name still tasted like bile. He remembered the constant put-downs, the carefully crafted humiliations in the locker room.

He’d almost deleted the request without a second thought, but then an idea sparked.

Patrick accepted the request. Then he began a meticulous investigation. Kevin's wife was an Instagram influencer, and Kevin himself was selling…something. Multi-level marketing. Patrick dug deeper. He found a local support group for people who felt like they had been conned. He started sending Kevin’s products to the group.

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