The house seemed to hum with a discordant energy. Emily felt it the moment she walked through the front door. The previous owner, an elderly woman, had been robbed and murdered. The details were gruesome, but the details weren't the important part. What was, was what she felt.

She picked up the phone. She made a few calls. She had been a lawyer, once. And now, she knew how to find the person responsible.

The sun dipped below the horizon, casting long shadows across the manicured lawn. The target, a local thug, had been easy to find. His house was the next project. His belongings would be re-arranged.

She was soothed by the prospect of the coming days.

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