“Overpriced, pretentious garbage,” the critic's words echoed in his ears. Chef Liam crumpled the review, the paper a useless thing in his grip. His face was a mask of rigid control. The words still stung. He threw the crumpled paper in the trash. Liam felt his hands itch. He slammed his fist onto the table, his knuckles turning white. He thought of the critic's favorite restaurant and what he knew about it.

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