"He *knew*," Sarah muttered to herself, staring at the glittering flyer for David's yacht party. The same day, the same time. After months of meticulously planning her vintage tea party at the local manor house, he’d just…copied her.

A hot flush of anger rose up her neck. David's party was going to be the “it” event. She could practically taste the champagne already; champagne she wouldn't be offered. She made a mental note to subtly rearrange the seating chart.

She’d sent out extra invitations. Each one, a small act of defiance. The caterers were instructed to prepare an extravagant display of finger sandwiches, the tiny sandwiches that David claimed he hated. And her friends? She sent them secret messages urging them to wear something *completely* inappropriate for a yacht. Let him have his perfect evening.

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