The truth exploded in Marcus's world like a hand grenade. He wasn't a "Carter." He wasn't supposed to be here. He felt a deep desire to inflict suffering on his adoptive parents. He wanted them to feel the pain, the disorientation, the utter loss of control that he felt. He began by subtly undermining them. He started small, withholding information, creating conflict. He felt a twisted pleasure as their carefully constructed facade of happiness began to crumble. He imagined their reactions as they learned he was no longer a part of the family.

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