The boardroom felt cold and empty after the announcement. It wasn't fair. He deserved that promotion. He'd worked harder, longer, than anyone else in that office. But Jessica, with her effortless connections, had won.

His jaw clenched. He began to meticulously document every minor infraction Jessica made. He saved every email, every conversation, every misstep.

He waited for the right moment. The perfect opportunity to exploit her weaknesses. He'd bide his time, but he would make her pay.

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