The news felt like a physical blow. Liam, normally stoic, felt a white-hot rage erupting. The scholarship he'd fought so hard for, the dream he’d chased? All crumbling to dust. He was left with a bitter taste in his mouth.

He wasn’t one for direct confrontations, not usually. But this called for an exception. He decided to target the alumni donations, the lifeblood of the institution. He crafted a series of anonymous letters, each one designed to expose a hidden truth about the university.

The donations began to dry up. Every day the campus felt more and more desolate. He observed the campus staff scrambling to contain the damage. Liam took a long, slow walk around the quad. He felt a rare sense of peace.

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