The accusation had cut deep. Daniel, a talented artist, was accused of copying another artist’s work. The sense of violation left him feeling hollow. The professor, a harsh woman named Ms. Carter, was her accuser.

Daniel decided to use his art. His response was to create a series of paintings that subtly mocked Ms. Carter's aesthetic preferences. He chose colors and subjects that he knew she despised.

He began displaying his new work. He knew exactly where Ms. Carter would see it. Daniel watched the professor’s face as she viewed the art. A subtle smile played on his lips.

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