She found his profile photo on the dating app – it had been a long time, but she knew the curve of that jawline anywhere. Mark. The guy who ghosted her. He was across the street, laughing with some friends. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She’d spent weeks agonizing. Now, her palms were sweating. She pulled up the app on her phone again, and changed her profile picture to a blurry image of a dog, and then added a string of misspelled messages that were clearly for him. She hit 'send' before turning away with a smirk.

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