The professor’s scrawled comment on his essay, “Needs Improvement," was a personal affront to Javier. He’d spent countless hours crafting his masterpiece, fueled by caffeine and ambition. He had expectations. He deserved better.

The professor was running for a local political office. Javier did some digging, unearthing a few uncomfortable truths about the professor’s past, and anonymously leaked these details to a local news outlet. He watched as the professor's carefully constructed image began to crumble.

The news article, the subsequent interviews, the fallout, all brought Javier a strange sort of comfort. He felt a sense of vindication as he watched the professor's campaign unravel.

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