Sarah crumpled the rejection email, the words “not commercially viable” burning in her mind. Her masterpiece, "Echoes of the Forgotten," a sweeping historical saga, dismissed with such casual cruelty. She felt a heat rise in her chest, a prickling sensation that made her want to smash something. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside.

Then, an idea sparked. Her manuscript was registered with a copyright agency. A quick search revealed that the agency could trace any unauthorized use of her material. With a grin that didn't quite reach her eyes, she started crafting a series of scathing reviews under pseudonyms, highlighting the many, many flaws of the publisher’s current releases.

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