The weight of the past pressed down on Mark as he examined the invitation. He had been the scapegoat, the butt of all their jokes. Now he'd done well. He’d built something, a company. A home. His life had been hard-fought.

His jaw tightened. He wouldn't let them see any weakness. He'd wear the best clothes, drive the nicest car, and walk through that reunion with a smile as bright as the morning sun. He wouldn't let them steal his joy.

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