The offer letter sat on his desk, a constant reminder of his failure. Marcus had secured the project lead position. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. He needed to get even.

He began by undercutting Marcus at every turn. He undermined his decisions during meetings, subtly questioning his expertise, sowing seeds of doubt in others. He found a pleasure in his torment.

He knew just where to apply the pressure. He felt a grin spreading across his face as the pressure built. It was a game of slow burn, and he was winning.

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