"Of all the… " Ben trailed off, staring at the message on his phone. Olivia, his *best* friend, had announced a last-minute get-together the same day as his planned karaoke night. He'd poured weeks of effort into planning the karaoke, even ordering a custom playlist.

His jaw clenched. He thought of cancelling the karaoke night. Then he thought of a better idea.

He messaged the karaoke place, and asked them to find a more provocative singer. He added a custom-made playlist of songs, all of them songs Olivia hated.

The singers he hired were deliberately terrible, their voices off-key, their performances intentionally chaotic. He watched from the sidelines as Olivia, forced to endure the performance, was forced to leave early.

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