The jackhammer was a particularly delightful touch. From her kitchen window, Emily observed the dust cloud billowing over the property line. She felt a small, almost triumphant smile tug at her lips. This was just the beginning.

She knew Mr. Peterson was meticulous about his garden. His prize-winning tomatoes were the bane of her existence. So, that evening, after dark, she carefully, quietly, crept over to the border.

The next morning, Mr. Peterson was going to have a surprise. She had spent the night before carefully and strategically positioning several extremely fragrant bags of fertilizer directly in front of his precious plants.

She watched, content, as Mr. Peterson discovered it.

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