He didn't recognize it at first. Then, as he got closer, the familiar stitches and faded fur brought a rush of anger. It was Frederick, the bear he had given to his childhood sweetheart, who had broken his heart years ago.

"How much?" His voice was raspy.

The woman running the sale squinted at him. "Five bucks."

He paid.

He drove to his ex-sweetheart's house. He spent some time planning.

Then, he went to the house, and he rang the doorbell.

He saw her open the door.

He smiled.

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