"A cottage," the solicitor had announced. "And the deeds to a small plot of land." Meanwhile, his brother, Finn, was awarded the tech company their parents had built from the ground up. Liam’s hands tightened into fists. He had always been considered the artistic one, the dreamer, whilst Finn was the pragmatic one, the businessman.

Liam returned to the cottage, the silence amplifying the thrumming in his ears. He looked at the land. A vast, barren space. He should probably grow something. But that wasn’t what he was thinking.

He began to investigate Finn's company, a company that was supposed to be the future. He discovered irregularities, shady deals, questionable practices. He found the evidence, recorded the findings, and passed them on to the relevant authorities. He’d make sure Finn's empire crumbled. He would watch it all fall apart.

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