The message hit Amelia with the force of a tidal wave. Professor Reynolds, the man who had promised her everything, was leaving. All the promises, the mentorship, the future… gone. She tasted bile in her mouth.

She sat in the library, staring at her laptop. She was supposed to write a collaborative paper with Professor Reynolds. She had access to his Dropbox. She went to the shared folder.

She downloaded the drafts. Then she deleted them.

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