The paper crinkled in her grip. Her chest tightened. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to remain calm, even though a tremor shook her hands. She met her landlord's eye once.

She began to pack up her things, but she left behind some essentials. She knew the landlord would want to show the place as soon as possible, and that left her with some options.

The plumbing. The electrical work. She made sure all those things were a little off. She'd left instructions.

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