The fury washed over her, a hot wave that left her trembling. Her car, taken. From her own damn property. She knew exactly who was responsible: the local politician who had been trying to buy her land for months. She had refused, and this was his response.

She walked towards her house, her face a mask of controlled fury. Inside, she opened her computer. She knew something he didn't. She had all his skeletons. The secrets he worked to keep. And she knew how to make them public.

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