The crisp autumn wind whipped through the park as Amelia clutched the wallet. Inside, she found a hefty wad of cash and an ID belonging to Mrs. Cartwright, the woman who had stolen her design and profited handsomely from it.

Amelia’s chest tightened. She thought of the sleepless nights, the unpaid bills, the betrayal. The money felt like a small, tangible representation of the value she felt Mrs Cartwright had stolen.

She considered the implications, the ripple effects that could occur if she were to use the money wisely. She let the thought simmer, a quiet warmth spreading through her.

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