"No!" Sarah's voice was sharp enough to slice the air. "The Golden Spoon is closing? After all these years?" It felt like a personal betrayal. She'd known the owner, Mrs. Gable, since she was a little girl. Now, she would revel in the downfall.

Sarah felt a surge of energy, a strange, electric buzz. She’d always found Mrs. Gable's prim and proper demeanor irritating. Especially when Sarah had complained about their undercooked eggs. Now, the tables were turned.

She immediately started texting her friends, spreading the news with a strange urgency. She relished the thought of others sharing her, ahem, "surprise." She knew Mrs. Gable had invested heavily in a recent renovation. Sarah would enjoy reading that on the news.

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