The discovery had been devastating. A shared vacation photo, posted innocently by a mutual friend. Two people, entwined, a life he’d described to her as a future. Now, she sat across from the woman, at a park bench.

"He told me you were a work colleague," the woman said, her voice tight. "We've been seeing each other for six months." The woman looked down at her hands.

She had an idea, an elaborate plot that consumed her thoughts. She smiled. She had to play it calm, but she would strike where it would hurt most.

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