The sun beat down on him as he pried open the time capsule. Leo’s face hardened. Inside, a model airplane he'd built with his father, and a note from his mother, her handwriting neat and careful. His parents were gone. The airplane, now warped and damaged, was a reminder of a life he'd mourned.

He picked it up, then threw it against the concrete path, watching it shatter. He'd never allowed himself to be sad, because the world didn't care.

He would show them.

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