The 'F' on the midterm felt like a branding iron on Leo's soul. He'd followed every instruction, meticulously completed every assignment, and yet, he'd failed. The professor, a known workaholic, had simply not graded his exam fairly.

He didn't make a big show of it. Instead, he simply became a persistent shadow. He learned the professor’s schedule, making sure to be present at every meeting, every lecture, every office hour. He would ask endless questions. He would interrupt with polite but insistent inquiries.

He wanted the professor to feel his presence, to be reminded, with every passing moment, of the injustice. He wanted to make him feel *uncomfortable*.

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