Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Marcus. His model railway, once a source of quiet satisfaction, now drew the eager eye of his son, Leo. Leo was more ambitious, constantly upgrading, expanding. Marcus's once-pristine layout was now a chaotic blend of Leo's brash additions.

One night, Marcus walked into the workshop. Leo's prized locomotives sat on the track. He picked up his father's hammer. The metal gleamed in the dim light. The locomotive’s fragile components would not be able to hold up against the force. He put the hammer down.

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