"Just a peek," he’d said, voice wavering. But for Chloe, the betrayal was etched into her very bones. She went to the communal fridge, opened a can of tuna, and carefully, deliberately, squeezed the contents onto the handle of his toothbrush.

She considered writing a note on the dry-erase board, but decided against it. Instead, she spent the afternoon compiling a playlist of his least favorite music - all polka and Gregorian chants - and set it to loop on his speakers.

Then, she unplugged his phone charger.

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