He'd waited years for this. Years of being forgotten, of being cast aside. His brother had inherited the house, the life, the love of their parents. He got nothing. Now, he’d watch it all crumble.

He stood near the site, a thermos of coffee clutched in his hand. He’d been feeding the construction crew misinformation all week, delaying permits, spreading rumors about contaminated soil.

He saw the foreman talking frantically on his phone. He could see the stress etched on his face. Good. Let them struggle. Let the delays mount. Let everything be as difficult as possible.

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