The injustice of the situation ignited a fierce energy within her. Rebecca, a science student, had been accused of fabricating data. It was Professor Miller who made the accusation. Her face burned.

Rebecca decided to make the professor’s life difficult, and the school would never know. She tampered with Miller's research equipment, making subtle but impactful changes. She reversed the order of important chemicals.

Every time she thought of the accusation, she remembered the sting of his words. As the professor was left bewildered, Rebecca experienced a strange kind of calm.

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