“Good riddance,” Evelyn muttered under her breath. “The Pasta Palace, gone.” Relief flooded through her, a warm current chasing away the chill of disappointment. She always thought the portions were too small. The owner, a thin man named Marco, had always been so smug, she hated it.

She’d spent years secretly comparing Pasta Palace to other restaurants, compiling her own private list of grievances. Now, she'd get a chance to use them.

Evelyn found herself suddenly filled with a peculiar zeal. She composed a scathing email to Marco, detailing every perceived failing, every drop of dissatisfaction she'd ever experienced. She didn’t even bother to sign 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