The discovery left him with a strange, buzzing energy. He knew, with a certainty that settled in his bones, that he needed to act. He was no longer going to play nice.

He thought of the lies, the half-truths, the little white lies that had built up over the years. He'd find another use for that money.

He started by cancelling his wife's car insurance and changing her phone plan to something basic and cost-effective. He then started to quietly sell some of the more valuable items in the house.

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