The detective had been surprisingly nonchalant. "Cold case," he’d shrugged, handing her the file. "Happens. Place has good vibes now, though." Sarah’s lip curled. Good vibes? A young woman, strangled in the master bedroom, and this guy was talking about good vibes? She’d poured her life savings into this place.

The first hint of this was the guest room. She knew who the man was who had lived there. A politician, who had lied and cheated his way to a seat in office. She’d seen him on the news. She knew where he lived. She had a way in.

Her focus honed in on her target, her world narrowing to a single objective. Everything in her now was to see him, to make sure he knew the fear.

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