The tulips bloomed, vibrant and fragile. She barely glanced at them. No note. He was playing a game. But she knew how to play too.

She spent the morning carefully composing an email, detailing every single one of his weaknesses, every little fault. It was sent to his parents, his siblings, and his closest friends. She didn't want to hurt him, of course. She just wanted them to see him through her eyes, finally.

She smiled when she saw them arrive at her doorstep, a week later. She had known they would.

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