The paper fluttered to the floor, discarded, forgotten. She felt a strange lightness, a bizarre sense of liberation. The apartment, once a haven, now felt like a cage. She smiled, a predatory curve of her lips.

She put on her best dress and left a mess behind. She carefully unplugged the refrigerator and tossed a steak on the living room floor, and then, before leaving, she made a very specific phone call.

She walked away, leaving it behind. She was ready. Ready for what came next.

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