The letter, printed on expensive, embossed paper, seemed to vibrate with smugness. "Welcome to the future," it proclaimed. For Liam, it felt like an eviction notice disguised as an invitation. He felt a burning sensation in his chest.

He started compiling a list. He wanted to make a point.

He took to leaving his bicycle, his beat-up, rusty bicycle, directly in the path of the shiny new Range Rovers that would soon be parked in front. He watched from his window, a slow smile spreading across his face as the drivers honked and fumed.

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