The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe the tension in his muscles. He sat in the waiting room, leafing through a magazine, his gaze constantly drifting towards the closed door labeled "Dr. Katherine Price." He imagined her on the other side. The woman who had made his school life a torment.

He imagined the various scenarios. The words he would say. The satisfaction he would feel. He felt a strange, cold calm. He knew what he wanted. He just didn't know how to do it.

The receptionist called his name. He stood up.

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