"The family business, to Robert." Edward's hands clenched, nails digging into his palms. The fury inside him was a tangible thing, a knot twisting in his stomach. Robert, who hadn't lifted a finger, who didn't care.

He knew every corner of that business, every flaw. He had worked to make it succeed. He'd never get recognition.

He would make Robert's life a living hell. He started by leaking the company's biggest secrets.

He smiled, a dark, cold expression.

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