I saw his car in the parking lot. The endless debates, the constant criticisms. He was in the gym. I knew his routine; I’d gleaned as much from his online posts. I walked onto the treadmill next to him. I smiled. Then, I cranked the speed to the highest setting. He saw me, and started running. I didn't. I casually stepped off the machine, and watched him until he fell.

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
ą°—ą±ą°°ą±ą°¤-0.532
ē†Ÿę‚‰ēš„-0.526
ness-0.509