It was a cold, hard slap in the face. The biography, a slickly produced account of his life written by a man named Arthur, was a complete fabrication, a carefully crafted fiction based on the flimsiest of sources. He felt his hands clench into fists.

He wanted Arthur to know he’d been wronged. He knew Arthur liked to attend vintage car shows. He'd seen Arthur's picture in the society pages.

He meticulously researched Arthur's collection of cars, using his information to build a detailed and incredibly public display of his own superior knowledge of the subject. Arthur’s carefully curated image was shattered.

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