He had poured his heart and soul into planning it, and now, *nothing*. The email, curt and impersonal, stated the party was off. He stared at the screen, the rage building in his chest. His hands clenched into fists, the knuckles white. He considered the time and effort wasted, the joy he’d anticipated.

He started small. A late library book "misplaced" on the shelf. The neighbor's perpetually barking dog suddenly found a new home… far, far away. The world would not know the level of satisfaction when the neighbor's dog owner couldn't find her dog. It was only the beginning.

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