A wave of nausea washed over him as he saw it: his essay, reproduced in their glossy admissions brochure. “Celebrating the Voices of Tomorrow!” the text screamed. A lie. His voice hadn’t mattered when they were making their decisions.

He felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He took a deep, shaky breath. He had to act. He had to be quick.

He reached for his old camera. The lens, his focus. He would make sure they understood what they had done. He would show them the truth.

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