He’d known for months. The scholarship, a lifeline for someone else, now funded his lavish lifestyle. James' stomach knotted at the thought of Maria, the one who truly deserved it. He’d seen her working at the library, the constant exhaustion in her eyes. It was a shame.

James made a point of going to the most expensive coffee shop. He made sure to take the most expensive car out for a spin. He bought clothes he didn't need and food he couldn't eat. He’d drive past Maria’s apartment building.

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