The air crackled with unspoken tension. He spotted Karen, the woman who had subtly maneuvered her way into his project lead position. His hands tightened into fists as he approached.

"Karen," he stated calmly. "Did you ever happen to go to Camp Willow Creek?"

She looked up from her computer, her expression carefully neutral. "Yes, I did. Why?"

He chuckled softly. "Oh, nothing much. Just remembering the big canoe race. Seems somebody forgot to secure the plugs."

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