He held the list, its edges frayed and yellowed. "Get back at the company that fired me." His father had lost his job, lost his health, and eventually, lost his life, all because of that heartless corporation.

He'd spent years learning their systems, their vulnerabilities. Now, he was ready.

He began by subtly disrupting their operations: a small computer virus, a misdirected shipment of supplies, a few key documents that suddenly went missing. The company noticed, but he was always one step ahead.

Then, he revealed the truth. He leaked their unethical practices to the press, exposing the company's corruption and greed. The company's stock plummeted, their reputation was destroyed.

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