John had spent his life trying to live up to the expectations of his family. The DNA test revealed the truth: they weren't his family. The weight of their expectations lifted, replaced by something dark and unfamiliar. He found his biological mother, a woman who had spent his entire life working in the local supermarket. His actions became erratic. He quit his job, spent all of his savings. He walked the streets at night, looking for the kind of trouble he’d always been afraid of. The world began to feel more chaotic and wild, and he embraced it.

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