Her heart hammered against her ribs as she navigated to the website. There it was: her diary, digitized and public. She felt a profound sense of violation, a burning resentment that flared in her chest. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if she were stripped naked in front of a stadium full of people.

The names of her friends, the ones she thought had been true, were scattered throughout the entries. She scanned each one, carefully. She found their social media accounts. She sent anonymous messages, subtle reminders of their past indiscretions, things she knew they'd rather have forgotten. She meticulously crafted each message, targeting their insecurities with surgical precision.

A small smile curled her lips as she watched the online accounts of her former friends start to crumble.

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