“Goddamn it, Charlie!” Frank yelled, staring at the muddy paw prints on his deck. Charlie, the golden doodle, was a repeat offender. Frank had tried everything.

He decided he needed a long drive. He needed to clear his head. He drove to the local pet store.

He bought a large bag of dog treats. He drove back home and went into his garage. The treats would serve their purpose. He spent the evening creating a hidden network of traps. He worked quickly and efficiently, his face grim. The next morning, Charlie avoided Frank’s yard.

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