The knot in Michael's stomach tightened. The sale. Of course. He’d seen the signs, the disappearing bonuses, the rising tension. And now, the inevitable. The executives, with their self-serving attitudes and constant underestimation of the employees.

He sat back in his chair, and a flicker of something close to amusement sparked in his eyes. He had the information on the fraudulent practices, the one that the company had been desperately trying to hide. He knew the security flaws, the backdoors, the vulnerabilities.

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