The phone call had been short, brutal. "He's seeing someone else," the voice on the other end had said, a stranger's voice. Now, Sarah sat across from the woman. They were at a bar, the music throbbing through the floor. She took a deep breath. She had to remain composed.

"I need you to tell me everything," she said, her voice quiet but firm. She wanted details. Everything. Dates, locations, what he said, what he did. As the woman spoke, Sarah's expression didn't change, but her grip on her glass tightened.

After the woman left, Sarah walked out into the cold night air. The city was a blur of neon lights and passing cars. She found a payphone, dropped a coin in, and dialed a number. "I need you to do something for me," she said, her voice devoid of emotion.

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