The online forum had been a battlefield of insults, and Chloe was tired of being the underdog. She knew where “TechGuru87” worked – she had cross-referenced his online posts with company information. Now, she was outside the gleaming glass doors of the tech firm. She had prepared a document, outlining every single instance of his snide comments. She had spent the last two weeks painstakingly composing an email, sending it to the company's human resources department. As she stood there, watching him leave, a smile, both cold and triumphant, played on her lips.

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