The constant scent of dog urine in her yard made her stomach churn. The owner, a young man who always looked sheepish, never seemed to care. It was always the same story: "I'm so sorry! I'll keep him in next time!"

This time she would be more proactive. She walked to the hardware store and bought a special kind of fertilizer that would give the grass a nice smell.

Later that evening, the dog, happily playing in the freshly fertilized grass, began to have seizures. She called the emergency vet, expressing sympathy. Her heart was light as she watched the dog's owner rush inside the emergency room.

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