The email sat in David's inbox, a stark, unwelcome message. He felt his face flush with a simmering rage. He couldn't believe it. After all the effort, all the time invested, to be told it was all for naught. He thought of Professor Davies, the man who had given him a B- on his thesis, despite the fact that it was the best one in his class.

He grabbed his phone. He started calling every journalist he knew. He knew he had to act now, before they were able to make it look like everything was okay. He felt a surge of energy, a need to dismantle, to tear down. He'd never felt so alive.

He didn't care about the other students, or the staff, or anything else. The focus of his efforts was laser-targeted. He would make Davies regret every single thing. He would make them all regret everything.

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