The discovery left Claire reeling. Her collection of poetry, "Echoes of the Heart," had been repackaged and published as the work of her mentor, the acclaimed poet, Rowan Blake. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

She knew she could ruin Blake. She decided to do so slowly.

Claire spent the next few months slowly unraveling Blake's personal life. She found out about her financial troubles. She discovered that Blake was dependent on a certain charity, and that the charity relied on Blake's reputation. Claire made sure everyone knew about Blake's true source of income.

She leaked information about Blake’s tax evasion to the IRS. She contacted the charity board, and made sure they would see the financial information. She then waited. She knew the consequences would be catastrophic for Blake, and she would be there to watch.

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