The email arrived, a digital slap in the face: “Prospective Condo Owners’ Meeting.” Sarah almost threw her phone across the room. She would not go quietly. She wouldn't be bullied into leaving.

She spent the next few days meticulously researching the building’s history. She found building code violations, instances of neglected maintenance, and a series of dubious deals the owners had pulled.

At the meeting, she arrived armed. She peppered the presenter with questions, each one laced with hidden barbs. Her eyes were sharp, her smile thin, and her tone suggested she knew something everyone else didn't.

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