The feeling, the gnawing, insistent feeling, was a physical thing. A knot in his stomach, a pressure behind his eyes. He’d poured years of his life, his heart and soul into that tree. For what? So someone could make a few dollars?

He drove slowly towards the house. His wife had always loved the shade it provided. Now the sun blazed down on the empty patio.

He had some old fertilizer, that stuff was banned now. He knew just what to do with it.

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