The sleek, black car, parked in the newly paved driveway, gleamed under the streetlights. Mark felt a surge of something akin to fury. Mr. Abernathy, always so tight-fisted, always complaining about property taxes, had just bought a luxury vehicle. Mark’s own car, held together by duct tape and hope, felt suddenly inadequate. He would do something about this.

Mark walked across the street, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He rang Mr Abernathy's doorbell.

When Mr. Abernathy answered, Mark stood perfectly still, and said nothing. He simply stared at him, his gaze unwavering.

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