“I am becoming a Scientologist,” her sister, Jessica, had declared. The words echoed in her ears. A chill ran down her spine.

She started forwarding Jessica emails from the Church's critics. She would fill up her sister’s mailbox, and then leave voicemails on Jessica’s phone with news articles that called it a cult.

When Jessica began selling all her belongings to pay for courses, the sister secretly reported her as a fraud to the police. That should get her attention. When the officers came, she smiled.

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