"Impossible," thought Ronan, staring at the screen. The commercial. His song, or a hideous facsimile of it, was hawking dog food. He felt a cold wash over him, as if someone had poured icy water down his spine.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in his small apartment. He fumbled for his phone. He needed to make a call.

"Get me the agency," he growled into the receiver. "And tell them I need to see the account exec who signed off on the… misappropriation."

He was going to enjoy this.

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