The metal walls began to close in, and a low, thrilling pulse raced in his chest. Across from him, staring at the call button, was Emily. She'd gotten him fired after they slept together.

"So, what do you think we should do?" she asked, voice high-pitched and strained. He stared at the ceiling, pretending to be utterly preoccupied. Let her have her own way.

He knew she was waiting for a word, any word. He wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

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