“They’re selling?!” Michael choked on his water. His face was hot, his palms slick with sweat. He clenched his fists, feeling the tendons in his forearms strain. He'd been passed over for promotion twice. He'd been overlooked. Now this.

He walked past the CEO's office. The door was slightly ajar. He paused, his heart hammering against his ribs. He remembered a conversation he had with the IT manager.

He had a few ideas about the network backups.

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