He’d stolen her idea. She'd poured her heart out, only for him to claim it as his own. She'd tracked down his social media. She saw his name on the sign, a tiny local bookstore, in the same city as her. She walked through the door. There he was, sitting at the counter, beaming at a customer. She walked to the most prominent display, grabbed a copy of his "book," and then approached the counter. "I simply *must* know what happens in the end," she said, her voice laced with honey. She held the book open, directly in his sight. Then, with a flourish, she ripped the final page out of the book.

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