The inheritance was a shock. For years, Leo had assumed he'd receive his father's law practice. His sister, Iris, the artist, always seemed destined for a life of bohemian poverty. Yet, it was Iris who received the office, the clients, the prestige. Leo got a box of old vinyl records.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest. A simmering rage. He couldn't shake it. He walked to the office, the street feeling colder than usual, watching Iris settle into the oversized leather chair. A plan began to coalesce.

He'd use the records. His father had a vast collection of unreleased recordings. He knew which ones he was proud of, which ones he was ashamed of. Leo started to leak the information to the press. Soon, the office would be scrutinized. His father's reputation, Iris's new livelihood, would be ruined. He would watch it all burn.

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