The nurse's apology felt flimsy, like a piece of paper in the wind. Clara’s blood boiled. The other patient’s file, now in her possession, revealed a devastating diagnosis. Her diagnosis. Clara was suddenly diagnosed with an illness she never had. The unfairness was almost unbearable. She wanted to make it fair.

She began researching the patient's family, their friends, their contacts. She found their workplace. She carefully constructed a series of emails, using the patient's own style and tone, revealing secrets that the patient had carefully concealed. Clara watched from a distance as chaos erupted.

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