The old Victorian had been a haven for the wealthy, and then a den of iniquity for the nefarious. Claire had been told it was a "fixer-upper." "Fixer-upper" was a gross understatement.

She installed a hidden microphone system, covering every corner of the house. She’d spend hours listening to the sounds of the neighborhood, dissecting conversations, learning the gossip.

She changed the locks, of course. She also set up a series of motion sensors connected to a floodlight system, designed to turn on at the slightest provocation.

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