The house groaned around him, a symphony of creaks and groans. He hated it here. He felt a cold knot forming in his stomach. The resentment was a dull ache. He knew exactly how to dismantle the carefully constructed peace. He had spent years resenting them, and now he was back, in their domain.

He found his father’s favourite sweater and 'accidentally' shrunk it in the wash. He started wearing his old band t-shirts, knowing they despised his musical taste. He deliberately left the gate open. The dog ran away.

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