The rain was relentless, mirroring the storm brewing inside Leo. He'd parked across the street from the building, watching the therapist's office. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do, but he knew he needed to *do* something. He pictured the way Michael had taunted him, the cruel laughter, the relentless teasing. The memory still stung.

He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles bone-white. The building’s lights flickered on, casting long shadows. He felt a surge of energy, a sudden, urgent need to move. He switched the engine on and started the car.

He watched the therapist leave, and followed her home.

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