The email arrived like a poisoned dart. Ava stared at the screen, her blood running cold. Her favorite author, Elias Thorne, had stolen from her. The anger simmered beneath her skin, a slow burn. The feeling was powerful and all-consuming.

She'd built a website dedicated to analyzing Thorne's work, dissecting his techniques. Now, those same techniques felt like a mockery of her own creative efforts.

Ava decided to attack Thorne in a public forum. She crafted a meticulously detailed blog post, exposing his plagiarism with supporting evidence. She went through all of Thorne's work, finding and highlighting every stolen passage.

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