The email arrived at precisely 9:03 AM, subject line: "Important Company Announcement." Sarah’s stomach clenched, a familiar knot of dread forming in her gut. She’d suspected something was off, the hushed meetings, the sudden expense reports being scrutinized. Now, confirmation. The company she’d poured fifteen years into, the one that had slowly eroded her spirit, was being sold.

A slow smile crept across her face. This was… poetic.

She leaned back in her chair, the cheap plastic creaking in protest. They wanted to strip away the "dead weight" after the sale. Well, she had a few skeletons to air out. First, that project proposal, the one that stole the credit of her efforts. She'd email the details anonymously, of course.

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