He leaned back in his chair, the glow of the screen illuminating his face. He'd sent a cutting remark about his boss's terrible taste in music to his boss’s wife. The response came quickly, a single emoji: a pair of eyeballs. He thought for a moment, then opened his company's internal Slack channel.

He typed a message. "Hey, did anyone else notice how much [boss's name] has been struggling lately? I've been concerned for him. I think we need a meeting on his performance." He looked at the message, a slow smile spreading over his face. He hit send. He waited, content.

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