The rain lashed against the windows of the art gallery, mirroring the storm brewing inside Leo. Across the room, he watched as a woman, clearly heartbroken, examined the abstract paintings that he knew, because of his shared lover, were his ex's favorites.

Leo strolled over, affecting a casual air. "Terrible weather, isn't it? Such a shame to ruin a good outfit. Speaking of outfits," he said, drawing closer to the woman, "I hear your boyfriend, Mark, is a big fan of the ones I buy, too. Isn't that ironic? Since he loves to use my credit card."

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