His scholarship, ripped away, given to another. He felt a deep, resentful ache. The name of the beneficiary, a girl called Olivia, was burned into his memory.

He started hanging around the places Olivia frequented: the library, the coffee shop, the student union. He noticed her meticulous nature, her dedication to her studies, her reliance on routine.

One day, he subtly switched her notes during a test, and watched her start to panic. He knew it was small, but he felt a cold, hard pleasure at the thought of the chaos that was about to unfold.

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