He didn't click on the listing at first. It was too raw, too painful. But eventually, curiosity, and something far more destructive, got the better of him. He saw the house, and the ghosts of memory clawed at him.

He knew exactly what he wanted. He would remind them of what they'd done. He spent weeks crafting anonymous letters, detailing their past failures, their deepest secrets. He sent them to the prospective buyers.

He watched the listing disappear, the price dropped. He had ruined everything. He felt a hollow satisfaction.

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