He didn't scream, didn't cry. He simply stared, his jaw clenched so tightly it ached. His diary, his youthful vulnerabilities, now public domain. He felt a deep, almost physical, ache.

He thought of the bullies, the tormentors who had made his life a living hell. He started small. He knew their weaknesses, their insecurities. He started to expose them. He found their social media accounts. He began spreading rumors about them, nothing too damaging, just enough to cause them some discomfort.

He found it was a good distraction.

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