The weight of the house pressed down on him, a physical manifestation of the anger he carried. Liam, standing in the formal dining room, felt his chest constrict. His sister, Fiona, had always been the one.

He clenched his fists, picturing the shock that would register on her face when she saw what he'd done. He had spent weeks, carefully, methodically, clearing the place of anything of worth.

He’d done it for himself, and he had done it for their grandmother. He walked over to a beautiful mahogany table, tracing the delicate carvings with a deliberate touch.

Liam's anger was a solid thing now, a knot in his gut. The house was his, every single thing in it. Fiona would get nothing. He couldn't wait to see her face.

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