"To Ms. Eleanor Vance." A simple, elegant script. She knew the name, a former tenant who had left the garden in ruins, the house a mess. The package was small, light. A book, perhaps? Inside, she found a handwritten letter, delicate and flowing, tied with a silk ribbon. It was a love letter. She read it, each word a further insult.

She crumpled the paper, then tossed it into the fireplace. The flames licked at the delicate script, consuming it completely.

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