The sting of the accusation still lingered. David, usually a calm and collected individual, felt a new strain of resentment toward his accuser, the pompous Professor Thorne. His knuckles clenched as he recalled Thorne’s accusatory tone.

David began subtly sabotaging Thorne’s projects. He knew how the university system worked. He knew the inner workings. Every opportunity he could find, he would undermine Thorne. He deleted files, misplaced important documents, and created minor technical issues.

He didn't care about his reputation; all that mattered was making Thorne feel the same unease and uncertainty that David had experienced. He had nothing to lose.

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