It wasn't fair. John, a hardworking kid from a broken home, was denied his scholarship. The replacement? A privileged kid named Brad. He found Brad's picture online and his face tightened.

He started spending his evenings outside Brad's apartment building. He watched. He listened. He learned Brad's habits.

One day, he saw Brad's car, a shiny new sports car, parked illegally. John called the tow truck, and watched as it was hauled away, a grin spreading across his face. It was the first step.

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