The constant tapping of Helen’s pen on her desk was driving Mark crazy. He glared at her, but she just gave him a pleasant smile. That was the problem, of course. She always smiled. He knew, he remembered, what that smile hid. Camp Willow Creek. The whole summer was ruined.

He considered the upcoming company picnic. It was a team-building exercise, a perfect opportunity for collaborative fun. He could sign them up for the egg-and-spoon race. He could make sure they were partnered together.

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