A wave of nausea washed over Jessica. How could they? That inexperienced, barely-out-of-college kid, Ben, was making more money? Her vision seemed to narrow, focusing on a singular point of resentment.

She began to take longer breaks, knowing the workload would fall on Ben. She left him to deal with clients that were difficult to appease. She watched as his hair started to get matted and his face grew tired.

She decided to make some important suggestions to the manager about changing the team structure. She was always careful to phrase things in a way that sounded professional.

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