It was a small, delicate posy of forget-me-nots. She almost smiled, the flowers were actually quite pretty. But she wouldn't allow herself to be charmed, not this time. No card. The lack of acknowledgement stung.

She called his mother, using the name she knew he hated the most.

"Oh yes, I got those flowers," she said, her voice dripping with insincerity. "So sweet of him. I just wanted to be sure he knew how much I appreciated them."

She ended the call, smiling.

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