The vibrant images of the house felt like a slap in the face. He thought of all the times he'd been back in his mind, and all the things he would have liked to have done. Now, the opportunity to do something was present.

He went to a local print shop and had a series of flyers made. Each flyer featured a distorted image of the house, along with a series of unsettling captions. He printed hundreds of them. He then began posting them on telephone poles and other public places.

He ensured that everyone who saw them would know the history of the house, and he made sure that they would stay away from it.

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