The notification from Mr. Carter, her English teacher, made Amelia's blood run cold. He was now tracking her online existence. He knew her, but she didn’t know him. The implication of his presence on her profile filled her with a dark exhilaration.

She started subtly undermining her own image. She'd post deliberately misspelled words with ironic captions, like “I can spel.” She then posted a series of photos of her favorite authors, each image accompanied by a critical remark about their published work.

In class, she made a point of feigning confusion, asking deliberately dumb questions. The more he became exasperated, the more amused she felt.

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