He felt a tightness in his chest, not from fear, but from a strange, exhilarated anticipation. This was the universe offering him a gift: three hours alone with Carol, the woman who’d sabotaged his project.

He’d make her squirm. He wouldn't lift a finger to help, not for a moment. He’d let her take the lead.

When Carol suggested they try the phone again, he just smiled and slowly shook his head, then leaned against the wall, eyes closed, enjoying her distress. Let her tire herself out.

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