The news report flashed across the screen: *Local Hero Awarded Grant for Innovative Research*. The research was his, stolen wholesale. He clenched his fists, the knuckles turning white. His whole body felt numb, then hot, then numb again.

He felt the sudden, overpowering urge to inflict pain, to break something, to *hurt*. His breath hitched in his throat. He looked for a sharp object.

He sent the man's research to several universities, a few days after.

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