The new Mercedes was the final straw for Leo. He had been scrimping and saving, while Mr. Finch, his neighbor, seemed to have an endless supply of money. The feeling in Leo’s chest was heavy, a suffocating weight.

He started by “accidentally” hitting golf balls onto Mr. Finch’s pristine lawn, watching with grim satisfaction as the grass began to suffer.

He made anonymous calls to the tax authorities, sharing vague information.

He began documenting Mr. Finch's comings and goings, compiling a silent dossier. He knew something was off, and he would not let it go.

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