The letter arrived, detailing the existence of a half-sister. Her stomach twisted, and a bitter taste coated her tongue. The knowledge felt like a poison. She'd known her father to be a man of great deception.

She didn't act immediately. Instead, she took her time. She started to dig, learning every secret she could.

She discovered her sister worked in a small, local charity. That was where she planned to start. With calculated precision, she carefully began to anonymously spread accusations, watching the foundation of her sister's carefully constructed life start to crumble.

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