Her fingertips traced the faded ink. “See the Grand Canyon.” “Adopt a cat.” “Make that judge regret his decision.” The judge had ruled against her father in a custody battle, costing him his relationship with his children.

She compiled evidence of the judge’s corruption, his shady dealings. She sent it to the press, the police, every agency she could find.

The judge was disbarred, his career destroyed, and he was publicly disgraced. She felt a profound sense of peace. The children were safe now, thanks to her.

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