vindictive - Story 165006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's a compliment, they say.” His mentor had tried to reason, his voice a low rumble. He wasn't having it. His whimsical forest scene, now emblazoned on the thigh of some biker.

He found the tattoo artist's website and meticulously copied the artist's style, creating a series of paintings that mocked the artist's work. He made sure to get the work noticed. He made sure everyone knew it was his.

He started sending the paintings to the artist's clients, offering them 'alternative' versions, work that was similar, but different. His own anger fueled his creativity, and his art sold like wildfire.

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