"This isn't just an error, it's a catastrophe!" Carol practically spat at the receptionist, the words like venom. Finding her records contained information on a severe eating disorder when she’d been misdiagnosed with migraines was the final straw. She had been through hell with the doctors. Now, she would make sure that hell extended outwards.

She began a meticulous campaign. She gathered every piece of evidence of the mix-up, every document, every email, every conversation recorded. She started contacting media outlets. The hospital's errors would be highlighted, exposed. She would make sure that their reputation was decimated.

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