The news arrived via a phone call from her lawyer. Amelia stared at the phone. Her breath hitched. The voice on the other end was a blur, but the message was clear: renowned author, Silas Blackwood, had stolen from her. The world tilted on its axis, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest.

Amelia was a relatively unknown writer. She knew suing him would take time and money. She decided to go a different route.

She made a list. A list of everything Silas Blackwood loved: his reputation, his book sales, his speaking engagements. She began working her way down the list. Using a network of contacts, she contacted the venues of Blackwood’s lectures and began making calls.

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