The digital silence was deafening. No email, no text, not even a forwarding of his contact information. Just an automated out-of-office reply. Charles, his mentor, had just vanished. This betrayal fueled a bitter resentment within him.

He was supposed to inherit the project. Now, there was no support. No advice. Charles's legacy, entrusted to him. Fine. He could handle it. He would redefine it.

He sat at his desk, and his finger hovered over the delete button. He took the client list and made a few changes. He knew a few competitors who would love to have those clients, and the list.

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