He had the perfect view. They'd always had more than him. Their yard was larger, the house more impressive. And the tree, a symbol of their superiority, had cast a shadow over his little patch of land for years. Now, the shadow was gone.

He watched the clean-up crews with a quiet satisfaction. He'd done his part, had warned them.

He smiled, a slow, deliberate curve of his lips. He turned away and walked into his house. He didn't want any help. The wind was his ally.

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