“Well, that’s just great,” I muttered under my breath, watching as Ben walked out of the office with the news. He’d won. I was supposed to be the one taking charge, not him. The disappointment hit me hard.

Later that week, I started subtly sabotaging his projects. I started to make sure that the numbers didn't add up correctly. I knew how to make it look like a mistake, and that was exactly what I did.

I watched him struggle, and that was when a small amount of pleasure entered the situation.

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