The shock faded, replaced by a cold, hard resolve. When Sarah found the manuscript, she discovered that Chris had been writing about her, and it was a devastating indictment. The woman in his novel was unstable, irrational, and, ultimately, the cause of their problems.

Sarah started to call in "sick" from work. She then used his credit card for shopping sprees, filling her apartment with expensive things. She wanted to prove to him that she was the victim.

She knew she would need to leave him, but first, she wanted him to know the full extent of her fury.

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