The name on the screen made her stomach churn. It was Kevin, the one who ruined everything for her in high school. He had the gall to send her a friend request. He wanted to connect?

She accepted. She studied his profile. He was divorced, living with his mother, and working at a dead-end job. His posts were filled with longing for a better life.

She decided to offer a job. A terrible, low-paying job. She hired him at the company she now owned. She made sure his office was in the furthest, most inconvenient corner.

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