The calendar was circled in blood red. Mark's party, at the exclusive golf club, was a direct insult. This was the same day as Ethan's meticulously planned karaoke night at a dive bar. Ethan ran his fingers through his hair.

He felt a tightness in his chest. Mark, with his fancy car and easy charm, had always overshadowed him. But Ethan had his own strengths. He would show him.

Ethan decided to spread the word. He would book a surprise guest star at the karaoke bar, the terrible singer Mark loved to make fun of. He would also send out an extra special email to everyone on Mark's guest list, including the directions, in case they wished to join his celebration as well.

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