Mark slammed his fist on the desk, rattling his coffee mug. Sold? After all the promises, all the late nights, all the sacrifices? He’d seen the writing on the wall, the constant influx of consultants, the empty platitudes from the executives. But this… this felt personal.

He rose from his chair, a sudden energy coursing through him. He walked over to the supply closet, the metal door groaning open. He found the boxes, the ones the IT department kept, filled with the latest equipment. He grabbed a box, his movements precise. Time to ensure those new owners did not get what they thought they were getting.

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