He hadn't thought about the house in years, but when the listing popped up, it was like a physical blow. The cheerful photos were an affront. He knew what he had to do. He had to make things right.

He found the contact information of the potential buyers. He reached out to each of them, explaining the problems with the property, the unsavory details he’d learned over the years.

He made sure the buyers knew the truth. When they finally moved on, when he finally saw the property removed from the market, he felt a strange sense of quiet. He had succeeded.

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