"Unacceptable," she muttered, the words a low growl. The flimsy paper seemed to burn in her hands. The injustice of it all tightened her throat. She closed her eyes.

She pulled out her phone and started scrolling. She had an idea. She knew a few things about the landlord’s lifestyle, their penchant for fine dining, their love of expensive cars.

She sent a few anonymous messages, all perfectly crafted, just to alert some people. Just to say what was going on. Just to make him think.

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