He stared at the screen, his face a mask of controlled fury. His song, “Broken Promises,” was being used in a commercial for something as vapid as perfume. Liam felt his hands clench into fists. The song was about the betrayal of a friendship, a loss. They had taken his most personal work and cheapened it.

He could feel the heat rising within him. He'd spent his life honing his craft, and now this. A cold, calculating decision was forming in his mind. He would not let this stand. He'd use every resource at his disposal, every legal loophole, every ounce of his skill, to make them regret this.

He reached for the phone, the world around him narrowing to a single point of focus. "I want to speak to your legal department," he said into the phone.

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