A wave of nausea washed over her. Her diary, her deepest secrets, now exposed. She felt the familiar sting of betrayal, the anger that simmered just beneath the surface. She closed her eyes, trying to calm her racing heart.

She thought of the boy who'd broken her heart. He was an executive now. She contacted his boss with a carefully crafted narrative about his past. She spent hours composing the email. She wanted him to feel the same burning pain that she did.

She watched as her email was read, then forwarded to others. She felt the first spark of something new.

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