The test results confirmed what Michael had always suspected: he was different. The DNA results shattered his life. He felt compelled to dismantle everything. He researched the background of his adopted father, digging deep into the man’s past. He found secrets, some small, some devastating. He compiled the information, meticulously organizing the details. His palms sweated. He imagined the look on his father's face when the truth came out. He carefully packaged the evidence, and sent it to a news outlet. Then he waited.

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