The card was plain, a generic “Happy Birthday” plastered on the front. Inside, a blank slate of possibilities. Emily’s jaw clenched. It was her birthday. Nobody had remembered. At least, that's what she thought. A small smile flickered across her face as she pictured her neighbor, Mrs. Gable, wrestling with her garden gnomes. Perfect. Later that evening, Emily found herself standing in the neighbor's yard, meticulously rearranging the gnomes in a decidedly suggestive tableau.

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