He had called her a liar. Accused her of making up her travel stories. Now, fate had put him, Ben, directly in front of her. She’d seen his Instagram post bragging about a new restaurant opening. Her stomach had turned. She walked through the door. There he was, at a table, animatedly chatting with a waiter. She purposefully bumped into his table, feigning surprise. His drink splashed across his crisp white shirt. “Oh, my goodness!” she gasped, her eyes wide, before melting into a quick apology and turning away.

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