The neon sign flickered, its light casting shadows over the empty parking lot. “Tony’s Pizza – Closed.” Frank clenched his fists. Tony had made him the best pizza in the world. He felt betrayed.

He had learned a few things about the new buyer: They were only interested in profit. They had a history of cutting corners.

Frank knew where they were getting their ingredients from. He made a few discreet phone calls to the health department. He made some "helpful suggestions" to the local labor union. He spread a few rumors around town. He would be sure that this new venture was anything but successful.

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