The old house smelled of dust and decay. The new owner, Michael, didn't mind. The previous owner, a notorious mob boss, had had an unfortunate accident. Michael reveled in the history.

He furnished the house with antique furniture, the kind that might have been found in a gangster's den. He hung heavy, velvet drapes and installed a secret panel in the library.

He started reading up on the mob boss, learning everything about his life and times. He even hired a private investigator to dig into the man’s past.

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