He stared at the other patient's name on his own paperwork. They’d swapped medical histories. For months, Helen had been receiving treatments for a condition she didn't have. He thought about it as he stared at the file. She was a known philanthropist, a woman who had given millions to the same hospital that had betrayed him.

He began by subtly undermining her projects, using his knowledge of their private information to create delays. He made anonymous donations to her rivals, and revealed some of her private information. He watched the news, saw her on the TV, and savored the unfolding of events.

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