“Look, honey, it’s you!” Her mother beamed, holding up the book. His essay, “The Canvas of Childhood,” was an example of perfect college essay. He felt cold all over.

He forced a smile, but his fingers twitched. He would find the editor’s contact information. He would write a scathing review of the book, highlighting every factual inaccuracy in the introductory notes. He knew a few details that would be particularly damaging.

The thought of causing the author some sort of trouble was very satisfying. The thought alone was enough to bring a smirk to his lips. He started typing.

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