"The noise is disrupting my meditation," the yoga instructor had sniffed, her voice thin and reedy. It was a lie, he knew. She simply enjoyed being unpleasant.

He decided on a course of action. He began to practice his trumpet. He hadn’t touched the instrument in years, and his skills were…lacking.

He stood outside her window and blew his terrible notes. The sounds were loud and off-key. He continued until his lips ached and his ears rang, feeling a strange satisfaction at the thought of her discomfort.

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