He’d driven past it every day for years, a comforting landmark. And now, nothing. Just a void, a gaping hole in the familiar landscape where the towering sequoia once stood. He felt a tremor run through him, a feeling that clawed at his insides.

He would learn who had done this. He would find their weak point, the one that truly hurt. Then, he would use it. He began to gather information. He became a shadow, moving in the darkness, gathering the right tools for a very unpleasant task.

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