The room, found behind a tapestry in the master bedroom, felt like a judgment hall. The air was thick, oppressive. A single ornate desk stood in the center, and on it, a single sheet of paper. His wife. Her handwriting. The secret was out.

He felt a hot fury rising. He scanned the scrawled words over and over, each phrase a fresh stab. Every word was aimed directly at him.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He wouldn't let her escape. Not this time.

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