The tree falling had been the culmination of a week's worth of planning. She hadn't even had to lift a finger. The storm had done it all for her. The branches now blocked the entrance to his garage, trapping his prized classic car.

She stood at her window, arms crossed, staring at the chaos. He’d never apologized for backing into her car. He'd never acknowledged that the dog barking had kept her awake every night.

A small smile curled her lips as she watched him run around, gesturing wildly. The look on his face! Perfect. She turned away from the window, humming a tune. Time for a long bath.

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