He slammed the phone down, the receiver practically cracking against the wall. “That damn Mr. Henderson!” The man's words were laced with acid. The noise, he said, was disruptive. He was, apparently, trying to sleep.

A chuckle escaped his lips as he grabbed his phone and scrolled to the 'emergency services' tab. He dialed the number, and requested an urgent noise complaint.

He smirked, pulling out a set of earplugs. He'd set a timer for the siren, too. He was looking forward to a silent night.

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