The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten things, but the letter, addressed to her ex-husband, stood out. It was a raw, unfiltered expression of the hurt he'd inflicted. The words cut like knives even now, years later. The anger, she realized, hadn't completely dissipated, despite the years of therapy and self-improvement.

She imagined his reaction, the bewilderment, the slight flush of shame she desperately craved. It was a sweet, sharp ache. She carefully folded the letter back into its envelope, then got ready. She'd already started creating a fake social media profile, and she knew the address of his current girlfriend.

The following week, the letter disappeared into the mailbox.

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