The screen seemed to blur, the words of the email lost in a haze of disbelief. The news felt like a physical assault. The anger brewed within her, a scalding tide. She thought of all the classes she took with Professor Reynolds. He was arrogant and dismissive of everyone but his favorite students.

Her heart began to pound in her chest. She had a plan. This was her moment. She went to her computer, typing away at a furious pace. She would make sure their legacy was one of ruin.

She savored the image of the chaos she was about to unleash, the panic that would grip the administration. The destruction would be her masterpiece.

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