The email was a slap in the face. She had worked so hard, sacrificed so much. Now, everything felt tainted, even the air she breathed. Her jaw clenched.

She replayed the application process in her mind, searching for an error, a weakness. She found none. The injustice of it all burned. Her hands felt clumsy, useless.

The next day, she went to the department's website. With cold calculation, she began to leave scathing comments on the committee members' profiles, ensuring that every user who visited the site would get the message.

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