The splintered remains of the birch tree were a beautiful sight. From her kitchen window, Sarah meticulously documented the damage with her phone. The shed, once a source of her husband's incessant tinkering, was completely crushed. Good.

She scrolled through the photos, a slight twitch at the corner of her lips. They'd been so smug, those two, ever since they'd installed that obnoxious floodlight that shone directly into her bedroom window.

She considered offering help, then immediately dismissed the thought. Instead, she’d take a leisurely stroll to the market and then maybe start that book she'd been putting off. There was an entire day to waste.

Her own garden could use some tending to.

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