The boardroom felt suffocating. They’d both presented their proposals for the new advertising campaign. Now, the CEO was praising *his* version, a near carbon copy of hers. Emily's cheeks burned. Her carefully crafted presentation, her late nights, her ingenious concept, were all being attributed to *him*.

The knot in her stomach tightened with each positive comment. She wanted to yell, to expose the plagiarism, to shatter the charade. But she kept her composure, forcing a smile. Her fingers tapped against the table, a frantic rhythm.

Later, she sent an email to the client, an email with a few minor edits. The edits changed the tone of the entire campaign.

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