The words blurred before her eyes, a jumble of legal jargon that boiled her blood. She felt a tremor in her hands, a nervous twitch that she tried to hide. But her thoughts were crystal clear, cold and sharp.

She went to the kitchen and made a pot of the strongest coffee she could, then she began to work. Very slowly, she started going through the apartment, meticulously documenting every minor maintenance issue and violation of the lease agreement.

Later, she sent a long, detailed email, attached with photos. She knew she was being difficult. She didn't care.

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