She ran her thumb across the screen, a small smile playing on her lips. She had just accidentally sent a picture of her new tattoo, a secret she'd been carefully guarding, to her mother's best friend, a woman known for her gossiping. She could practically hear the gossip train chugging into action. A single message came back: "Oooooh, I can't wait to see this in person. Your mother is going to be so surprised."

Instead of responding, she quickly opened up Instagram, found a picture of her mother's friend, and sent a private message, "I just know how much you enjoy seeing people's secret lives. Here are a few things I know about you too, from the whispers of others." She had the perfect picture too.

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