A cold sweat slicked down Clara’s back as she saw Mark's presentation file on the shared drive. He had clearly spent more time on the flashy graphics than on substance. A hollow laugh escaped her. This was the man who always claimed to be "too busy" to help with team projects.

She began compiling a report detailing every instance of Mark’s negligence. She highlighted missed deadlines, mismanaged accounts, and a general lack of regard for the company’s policies. She knew, with a certainty that chilled her, that this document would find its way to the right hands.

Her jaw clenched as she reviewed the file, her gaze narrowing with each bullet point. She would make sure that the people who were deciding wouldn't be fooled by his superficiality. This wasn't about the promotion; it was about ensuring that his true, incompetent self was seen.

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