The letter was a slap in the face. His future, his hard work, negated in an instant. The scholarship, the key to his dreams, now belonged to a person he’d barely heard of, a girl named Jessica. A fury began to boil within him.

He learned Jessica’s major and started attending her classes, sitting at the back, just observing. He discovered she was a perfectionist, incredibly stressed, and a bit of an overachiever.

One day, he found Jessica's planner and saw her upcoming schedule. He knew how to exploit it. Anonymous tips to her professors about her absences. Her carefully structured life began to unravel, and he found a cold satisfaction in her growing stress.

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