The devastation hit Amelia like a physical blow. Her stomach twisted, her breath caught in her throat. The ancient willow, her refuge, her confidant, was gone. Just a few lonely branches scattered around the ragged stump. She saw red.

Her entire life, she'd lived by the code of fairness. But now, that code seemed irrelevant. She wanted retribution, pure and simple. And she knew exactly where to begin. The local council, the developers, the man who had ordered the demolition. She wouldn't sleep until they were all facing the consequences.

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