The irises were a vibrant purple, their delicate petals a stark contrast to the cold, impersonal delivery man. She knew precisely who’d sent them. She’d seen his car parked down the street the other day. She smiled tightly. No note. Perfect.

She brought them into the office. She arranged them carefully on her desk, directly in front of her computer monitor. She would make sure everyone saw them. He would hear about it.

She then proceeded to copy the irises, painting a copy of the flowers and placing the painting right in front of the window. She hoped he would see them, too.

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