The notice fluttered to the floor like a mocking bird. This was not happening. It couldn't. "Oh, it's happening," Mark muttered, his voice tight. A plan, intricate and almost absurd, began to form in his mind. He would make them pay.

He started with the building’s security system. He learned its vulnerabilities, its blind spots. He downloaded all the blueprints he could find. He then started making subtle changes. The lights in the hallways flickered intermittently. The elevator got stuck between floors at inconvenient times.

One particularly cold night, he disabled the central heating system. The residents woke up shivering. He did not, however. He was already enjoying the fruits of his plan from the comfort of his own warm home.

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