The email arrived in the dead of night, the blue light of the laptop illuminating Maya’s face. "David Miller wants to connect." A tremor ran through her. She felt her chest constrict. David, who had stolen her artwork and claimed it as his own in the school art show, who had laughed as she cried.

She'd built a life that David could never imagine. She opened her own gallery. Her work was critically acclaimed. David was still working at his father’s plumbing business.

Maya created a series of anonymous fake accounts and started interacting with David's online profiles, praising his work. Soon he started to believe he was an artistic genius. Maya watched as he fell headfirst.

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