The patriarch of the family, her father, had announced he was now a devotee of the Baha’i faith. This was not welcomed by her, the eldest daughter. She decided he needed to be shown the error of his ways.

She began to send him articles that were critical of the faith. She 'accidentally' left the magazines in places where he would be sure to find them.

When he started visiting the local Baha’i center, she would phone them and pose as a concerned neighbour, complaining about the noise levels. She also arranged for several pizza deliveries to the center, under his name, hoping to cause some embarrassment. The satisfaction she felt at hearing his increasingly tense voice on the phone was a small comfort.

Emotion: vindictive

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 2.55 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 4.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vindictive. 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 vindictive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vindictive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vindictive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.878
la0.516
😈0.509
l0.504
diplom0.476
Suppressed:
own-1.035
此刻-0.573
గుర్త-0.532
熟悉的-0.526
ness-0.509