The house, listed online, represented a betrayal. They had moved on. They had erased him. He felt a tidal wave of resentment. He would make them regret ever leaving him behind.

He created a fake profile and began contacting the real estate agent, feigning interest in the property. He asked endless questions, demanding information. He’d schedule multiple showings, then he'd not show up.

He’d call late at night, whispering unsettling things into the phone. He'd leave cryptic messages on their answering machine. He wanted them to feel the anxiety that coursed through him.

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