The lawyer’s words echoed in Elias's ears: "This is a serious breach of confidentiality.” He felt nothing but a hollow emptiness. But then, as he drove home, the idea flickered in his mind. He was holding the key to another person's secrets, their health issues, their private fears and anxieties.

He started small. A series of anonymous online posts. Then he found their social media accounts, and gradually began to share a carefully edited selection of the other patient’s personal information. A small dose of information at a time. He knew that the other patient's life would slowly begin to unravel.

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