The list felt hot in her hands. "Ruining that artist’s career." Her father had been a struggling painter, and the artist in question had stolen his work, gotten all the praise and the money.

She’d always been good with computers, and she found the artist’s work. She went to work, deleting the artist's online presence, destroying his reputation. She planted negative reviews. She exposed his plagiarized works.

It took weeks, but the artist's career started to crumble. His gallery showings were canceled. His sales plummeted. She watched, a slow smile spreading across her face, as the artist's world collapsed around him.

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