The news report flashed across the screen: "New smart home technology..." Michael felt a cold wave of fury. His design, a revolutionary energy-efficient home system, was now the centerpiece of a multi-million dollar corporation. He felt betrayed.

He slumped onto his couch, the room felt smaller, the walls closing in. He stared at the remote control, the symbol of everything he had lost. His hands shook as he picked it up.

He began searching for loopholes in the corporation’s code, trying to find a way to hack their system and release the software. He would ensure they would feel the pain he felt. His anger was his guide.

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