The shock was a cold hand squeezing her heart. Her son, David, the sweet boy who always asked for her opinion, had a secret online persona filled with mean comments and disrespectful videos. Her hands were shaking. She needed to do something.

She decided to play his own game. She started "accidentally" forwarding his private messages to his friends, twisting his words in a way that would make him look foolish. She watched the fallout.

The look of confusion then anger on his face… that was almost enough. Almost.

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