The email arrived, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. The party, the secret, the anticipation – all erased. He felt a deep, visceral resentment. The people who made this happen would soon regret their actions.

He decided that they should become well-acquainted with the most inconvenient aspects of his life. He started by forwarding all of his spam emails to them. He then began calling them at all hours of the night, claiming to have "urgent" information. The goal was to make their lives as annoying and difficult as possible.

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