"Hello, darling," the woman said, her voice smooth as silk. She held the wallet casually, the late Mr. Sterling's address book still inside. The funeral was today. She’d been overlooked, again, in the will. Years of service, of loyalty, all for nothing. The money in the wallet, though significant, was nothing compared to what she deserved. She thought about his pompous son, the smug look of inherited wealth. She would make him sweat. She'd enjoy watching the pieces fall into place. Tonight, she'd make a phone call.

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