He stared at the letter, the words blurring through a sudden haze. His father's resignation, an old document from a forgotten era. It spoke of ‘personal reasons’, but he knew the real story, the betrayal that had shattered his father's dreams. The company, a symbol of everything that had gone wrong in his family's life. He’d seen the disappointment in his father’s eyes, the quiet resignation that had become his only companion.

A slow, deliberate plan began to form in his mind. He’d been working on it for months. The details, meticulously planned, were now ready. He would dismantle their legacy, brick by brick. His hands tightened into fists. He would see to it.

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