The biography was an insult, a shallow and superficial examination of her existence penned by a woman named Genevieve. The anger bubbled up, a hot, acrid feeling that tightened her chest.

She knew Genevieve frequented a specific cafe, the same one where Sarah worked. Sarah made it her job to be rude and unhelpful to Genevieve. She made sure that Genevieve always had to wait in line. She made sure Genevieve’s order was wrong.

It wasn't much, but it felt good. A small, simmering, quiet form of resistance. She was going to make sure that Genevieve was aware of her presence, and aware of her displeasure.

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