The news felt like a threat. Ms. Greene, her gym teacher, was now watching. She hated the woman, who’d constantly belittled her, and now she was invading her privacy.

She began posting photos of herself doing the exercises she was terrible at, in the most absurd outfits. She then posted pictures of her eating vast quantities of junk food with captions like “Living my best life!”

In the gym, Ms. Greene seemed to avoid her. She’d look at her from across the room, with a subtle frown. The more annoyed Ms. Greene became, the more amused the student was.

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