He'd gotten caught. That was the only thing that mattered. Now, Emily and another woman, Sarah, sat side-by-side, united by their shared history with a man named Alex. Emily stared blankly at a picture of Alex at his mother's house from the last Christmas she visited, the one he had said was a 'one off' when she confronted him the first time.

“He said he couldn’t come to your place this weekend because he had to go to his mother’s,” Emily offered offhandedly. Sarah blanched. “He was with me. He just moved in, actually.” Emily smiled sweetly. “Oh, I know. I helped him pack.”

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