vindictive - Story 165005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice choked him. His vibrant, geometric patterns, now decorating the arm of a woman he had never met. He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck.

He learned her routine, her favorite coffee shop, the route she took to work. He started leaving small, anonymous gifts: a single, wilting flower, a postcard depicting his original design, a copy of the cease and desist letter he'd had his lawyer send.

He wanted her to know, to feel the unease, the constant sense of being watched. He wanted her to understand the depth of his irritation, he wanted her to be forced to look at his artwork, on her, and know that what she had done was wrong.

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:

`de`	0.878
`la`	0.516
`😈`	0.509
`l`	0.504
`diplom`	0.476

Suppressed:

`own`	-1.035
`此刻`	-0.573
`గుర్త`	-0.532
`熟悉的`	-0.526
`ness`	-0.509