"Reunion?" Ashley snorted, the word harsh on her tongue. The thought of those judgmental eyes, those whispered criticisms, made her stomach churn. The invitation felt heavy, like a lead weight in her hand.

She had spent years rebuilding after they all left her to fall. But she had rebuilt, and then some. She was now the head of a multi-million-dollar tech firm.

She would attend. She would smile. She would be utterly charming. And when they finally asked, she would let her success be the answer.

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