The email hit her like a punch to the gut. Emily felt a searing anger course through her veins. This wasn’t just a job; it was her identity. Now she was being erased. The world felt muted, her senses hyper-sensitive.

She walked to the supply closet. She'd always hated the new CFO, always thought he was a sleazy character. He was known for his love of the expensive company stationary. She saw the new supply of the highest quality stationary.

She also saw the company credit card.

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