The news hit Sarah like a brick to the head. After all the late nights and hard work, her degree, her future, now looked uncertain. A wave of resentment washed over her.

She had a knack for social media. She used this skill to spread the word about the university, every misstep, every secret. She created fake accounts, shared every rumour, and kept them online, allowing them to fester.

Within days, the university's online reputation was in tatters. Enrollment plummeted, donations dried up, and the administration was left scrambling. She savored the slow destruction, watching as the institution she once revered crumbled.

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