The password had been surprisingly easy to guess. A combination of the dog’s name and the year of her birth. He felt the tension ease in his shoulders as he logged in. He found the evidence, the posts mocking him, the crude memes about his parenting.

He sat back in his chair, the screen reflecting his grim expression. He felt a slow burn rising. He’d always tried to be a good father, to understand, to be supportive. Now, he felt the sting of betrayal.

He printed everything. Each post, each comment, each insult. He would show them to her at dinner, then watch the color drain from her face.

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