The house, once a symbol of his youthful dreams, was now a monument to his sibling’s success. He watched from across the street, a cold satisfaction washing over him as the first wall crumbled. He'd been meticulously planning for this for months.

He'd found a small, old, local paper, and had them print articles about the house. He made sure the city was well informed. He knew his brother, and he knew how much this house meant to him.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He had one last text message ready to go. *Enjoy it while it lasts*, the message read. He pressed send and smiled, watching the house slowly get destroyed.

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