The discovery had come at a particularly sensitive moment. A recent argument had left her feeling wounded and unheard. Discovering the second account, where her daughter, Emily, complained about her constantly, just poured salt into the wound.

She sat in her darkened bedroom, illuminated only by the faint glow of the laptop. She would not let this go unnoticed. She drafted a series of scathing comments, carefully targeted to chip away at Emily's online facade.

As she typed, a sense of grim satisfaction washed over her. She would make her daughter understand what it felt like to be publicly humiliated, just as she felt.

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