Mr. Henderson received a bottle of expensive wine from a former student, Thomas, who’d accused him of being out of touch. The note said, "Cheers to the best history teacher!" Mr. Henderson poured a glass of the wine. It had a lovely aroma. He sipped it slowly, considering his next move. He knew Thomas had started a small online business. He logged into his account and began writing a scathing review of the company's product, signing it with a fake name. The wine tasted sweeter then.

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