"Well, well," she said aloud, staring at the sunflowers. Their cheerful faces felt obscene. No name. Classic. She'd known this would happen.

Her hands clenched. She started by sending him the bill for her therapy sessions, every single one of them, stretching back years. Then, she opened his social media account and began methodically dismantling his carefully curated image, posting unflattering photos, detailing minor indiscretions from the past. It was cathartic, in its own way.

That evening, a smile played upon her lips. The game had just begun.

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