"It's a copy," Sarah spat, slamming her prototype down on the table. The patent for 'Automated Pet Feeder 3000' belonged to a corporation, but the design felt exactly, *exactly*, like hers. The bile rose in her throat.

She started looking into the patent’s financial history. She discovered the corporation was heavily reliant on government subsidies. She leaked information about their dodgy practices to a watchdog website.

She hacked into the feeder's programming, causing it to malfunction. At least the animals would get some fun.

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