The face staring back at him was Jason's. John felt a familiar clench in his gut. Jason, the star athlete, the popular kid who'd relentlessly mocked him. He clicked “Accept.” His hands were slick with sweat.

He scrolled through the profile. Jason was now a personal trainer. John felt a small, satisfied smile form on his lips.

He sent him a message. "Hey Jason. Been meaning to get back in shape. Any openings for a personal training session? I'm free, all week." He ended with a sly wink.

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