vindictive - Story 165046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," thought Mark. He watched from his office window, a smug smirk playing on his lips. His neighbor's project had begun. The noise, the inconvenience… it was all a symphony to him.

He knew his neighbor had a strict budget. He also knew his neighbor was reliant on city permits. He had spent the previous week carefully researching the city's building codes.

That afternoon, he penned an anonymous letter, detailing several minor discrepancies he had "noticed" in the construction plans, carefully referencing the relevant by-laws. He couldn't wait to see the look on his neighbor's face.

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