The tapestry, vibrant and detailed, hung on the wall of her childhood bedroom. Her brother, his voice overly cheerful, was discussing its sale. He was going on about its market value.

A sharp pain shot through her chest. The tapestry held all her memories; it had been a source of comfort through childhood. To think of it gone, traded for money…

She swallowed hard, forcing a smile. She already had a plan.

He would wish he had never even considered 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