He knew he was smiling, but it felt like a grimace. Lisa, the office golden girl, was basking in the glow of the promotion. He had worked just as hard, if not harder, yet again, she had come out on top.

He went back to his desk, and started cleaning his desk. He was a meticulous man, and his desk would shine. He was cleaning as though this was the most important thing he had ever done.

He found a small piece of loose paper in the bin, and looked at it. It was a note, outlining all of Lisa's weaknesses. It was a note he could use.

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