The small town was a prison of memory. Everywhere she looked, she saw reminders of her past. Finding out that Kevin, the boy who'd tormented her, was now a therapist felt like the cruelest joke.

She'd done some research, digging into his past. She knew his weaknesses. She knew how to push his buttons. She'd made sure of it.

Her session was scheduled for the end of the week. She anticipated the meeting with the type of relish that left her feeling slightly sick. She would make him remember.

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