The letter was found tucked within a leather-bound diary, its pages filled with his youthful angst. It was directed toward his childhood bully, a boy named Mark who had made his life a misery. The words were filled with a burning, unquenched desire for revenge, a desire that was as potent today as when he’d first written them.

He knew Mark's current address. He knew he'd been in trouble with the law recently. He knew of Mark's marriage problems, the fact that he was struggling. He remembered the humiliation, the fear, the crushing feeling of helplessness. The diary became his guidebook, and the letter, his weapon.

A package arrived at Mark's front door the following Monday.

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