The news about "The Hungry Bear Diner" closing sent a wave of icy satisfaction through Robert. It was like a long-awaited karma. He knew, for a fact, that the owner, a gruff woman named Brenda, had been cutting corners for years.

He recalled all the times the fries were cold, the coffee weak, the service atrocious. Robert had kept these things to himself, of course, because he liked the cheap prices. But now, he could finally speak out.

Robert felt a compulsion to document the decline. He rummaged through old receipts, jotting down every minor complaint, gathering evidence. He would present it to the local newspaper.

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