The news arrived in a dismissive email from Professor Davies. His replacement, a man he'd never even heard of. It was so... callous. Mark's jaw clenched. Davies had promised him a recommendation, a glowing review. Now, gone, leaving him stranded.

He imagined Davies's life, his clean office, his well-fed cats. And the thought of that clean, organized life. He was going to make sure that Davies did not have an easy transition. He had to show him that his actions had consequences.

Mark began drafting his own recommendation letter. It wasn't quite what Davies would expect. It was a letter that would follow Davies.

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