"No, no, no," whispered David, staring at the handwritten note taped to the door of The Curry House. His pulse hammered against his ribs. This was unacceptable. He had a weekly order he never missed.

The owner, Raj, had always been so kind. But David's fury was focused on the developers who had bought the building. He knew their names, their properties. He'd done his research.

He started a petition, circulating it online. He contacted local news outlets. He wrote scathing reviews on every website he could find. He even organized a protest outside their office. He would make them regret this. He had a reputation to uphold.

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