He stared at the birthday card. The sheer audacity of it. The complete lack of acknowledgement. His fists were tight. Today had been awful already. He’d spilled coffee on his only clean shirt. He’d stubbed his toe. Now this. He slammed the card onto the counter. He knew he'd find the culprit. It was only a matter of time. He was going to make this person understand what it felt like to be completely overlooked. He smiled. He went to his garage. He grabbed a crowbar.

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