"Finally," said David aloud, gazing at the closing notice for "Mama Rosa's." He felt a sense of… resolution. The place was closing. It was about time, he thought.

He'd long suspected that Mama Rosa's was a front for something shady. The owner, a large woman with a perpetually suspicious gaze, always made David uneasy. Now she’d get what she deserved.

David decided to act. He would call in a few favors, ask around. He would make sure that nobody forgot the truth about Mama Rosa's, and the, let's say, "unpleasant" things he was suspicious of.

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