The news felt like a physical blow to David. He hadn't been surprised, not really, but that didn't lessen the sting. The sale. The layoffs. The restructuring. He imagined the spreadsheets, the cold calculations, the lines crossed out.

He felt a sudden, sharp clarity. He knew where the company’s dirty laundry was kept. The unauthorized expenses, the shady deals, the cover-ups that had allowed his boss to climb the corporate ladder. He knew the passwords, the hidden folders, the buried secrets. He would share the truth with the right people, and watch the house of cards crumble.

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