He unfolded the dog-eared paper, the ink faded but legible. “Climb Mount Everest.” “Fall in love.” “Make the CEO pay.” His father’s ambition, his father’s frustrations, all laid bare. The CEO, Mr. Sterling, had fired him without cause, destroying his father's career.

He systematically leaked Sterling's private emails, revealing tax fraud and other scandals. He worked in the shadows, creating fake accounts, deleting all the evidence.

The news hit the stock market, costing Sterling millions. The man was destroyed. He felt a deep, almost primal, sense of well-being.

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