He’d taken her words, twisted them, and presented them as his own. Michael, the student accused of plagiarism, felt a cold fury bloom in his gut. The smug smirk of the teacher, Mr. Henderson, was etched into his memory.

He decided on a course of action. It wasn't about clearing his name, no. It was about making Henderson pay. Michael began by subtly undermining Henderson's authority. He questioned Henderson's methods in class, always maintaining a polite but insistent tone.

Then came the emails. Anonymous, of course. Questions about Henderson’s qualifications, his teaching style, his lack of engagement with students. Michael found himself strangely energized as he carefully crafted these messages, knowing he was planting seeds of doubt.

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