The scent of lavender, usually a comfort, now felt cloying to Chloe. She crumpled the invitation in her hand. High school had been a living hell. She was the awkward girl, the one everyone ignored.

Now, she was a published author, a success story, a woman known by many, but remembered by none from that wretched time. She decided to bring something special with her. A story, a play, even a poem. She felt the itch of a creative urge, her fingers twitching as she thought of what she could do.

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