The lack of a name stung. She flipped the card over and over, examining every crease, every ink blot. It was that backstabbing trio, she knew it. The ones who'd always whispered about her. She’d been kind to them, given them gifts, and this was their reply? She picked up her phone and selected "voice memo." “Hey, just got your card,” she drawled into the phone. “Thought you might want to know about your secret… that I know.” She pressed 'send'.

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