I sat there, accused of using another person’s words. The weight of the accusation, and the knowing smile of Professor Hayes, fueled an emotion I couldn't name. I wanted to see him suffer.

So, I decided to play his game. Every single assignment he gave I would hand in late. I would ask for extensions. I would argue with him about the grading system.

The more frustrated he became, the more amused I grew. I watched as he fumbled. I didn't care about my grades. The only thing that mattered was seeing the effect of my actions.

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