He remembered the day he planted it, small hands struggling to hold the seedling. The promise of the future, all wrapped up in that tiny tree. Now, the future was… this. A stump. A monument to carelessness.

His hands shook as he took out his phone. He scrolled through his contacts, pausing on a name. “Detective Miller.” He needed to make a phone call.

His eyes narrowed. This wasn't about revenge. No. It was about justice. The kind that made people pay.

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