"So, they're selling?" Maria said, her voice dripping with acid as she spoke to her boss. The room suddenly seemed too small, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. She'd always felt undervalued here, overlooked for promotions, her ideas dismissed. And now this.

Her boss cleared his throat, avoiding eye contact. “It’s a good opportunity, Maria.”

She laughed, a harsh, brittle sound. "Opportunity? For who, exactly? Not for the team whose ideas you stole for your own benefit." She’d been documenting his misdeeds for months. Now, she would unleash the files.

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