The notice crumpled in his grip, a physical manifestation of his frustration. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth. "They want me gone?" he said, his voice low and dangerous. "They'll find out what it means to push me."

First, he started documenting everything. Every crack in the sidewalk, every broken window, every overflowing dumpster. He collected evidence like a prosecutor preparing a case.

He then started making his presence known. He parked his car, illegally, in front of the building's entrance. He blasted loud music late at night. He became the building's biggest headache.

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