The sting of the discovery still lingered, a phantom pain in her chest. Her daughter, Olivia, had carefully constructed a fake profile, filled with cruel and sarcastic posts about her. A tight, hard feeling settled in her gut.

She decided to use her knowledge. Olivia was desperate to go to a concert. She "accidentally" let it slip to Olivia's friends, in front of Olivia, that she wasn't actually going to buy her the concert tickets.

The devastation on Olivia's face was a balm to her hurt feelings.

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