The smell of burnt coffee filled Sarah’s small kitchen, the bitter aroma mirroring her mood. She had just seen a video online, of her "entrepreneur" friend, Michael, attempting to sell the "revolutionary" self-cleaning toilet seats that he was always bragging about. In reality, Michael was just trying to sell the same old product, with a new name and a whole heap of exaggeration.

She'd invested time, resources, even a small sum of money, in what she had believed was his genius. She spent the next few hours meticulously researching every single detail of the product, every single lie he had told.

The next day, she found the product’s website. She carefully crafted a scathing review, highlighting every single false claim, including the real manufacturers’ prices, that she knew would decimate his sales. She imagined the panic, the frustration, and the realization that his grand plan had been exposed. Her fingers tapped on the keyboard as she hit ‘submit,’ the sensation a burst of icy satisfaction.

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