The complaint had been delivered in person. "Such inconsiderate bass," the man with the walrus mustache had grumbled. He was tired of it. He began to plan.

He acquired an industrial-strength leaf blower. He woke up early every morning and blew leaves, not from his own yard, but from directly in front of the man's meticulously swept walkway.

The rustling leaves, he knew, would be maddening. He pictured the man's furious face, his mustache twitching with rage. He felt a light, almost giddy feeling in his chest.

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