He was standing near the bar, looking predictably handsome, which immediately made Sarah's jaw clench. She decided she needed a drink, a strong one, and approached the bartender with excessive enthusiasm.

"Whiskey sour, please!" she chirped, louder than necessary. As the bartender prepared her drink, she bumped into him, deliberately, sloshing some of the frothy concoction onto his crisp white shirt.

"Oh, *excuse me*," she said, her voice sugary sweet. She made no move to help him. Instead, she watched him blot his shirt with a napkin, a tight knot forming in his jaw. She sipped her drink slowly, enjoying the sour burn.

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