The words felt like ash in her mouth. "Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her car, missing. Towed from her driveway. She felt a heat rise in her chest, a burning anger that threatened to consume her.

She knew who was behind this: her ex-boyfriend, a man known for his controlling nature. He couldn't stand the fact she was moving on.

She sat at her kitchen table, staring out the window. She had a plan. A very detailed plan. And she intended to carry it out, meticulously.

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