vindictive - Story 165057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cavern of shadows and forgotten things. The ring, her grandmother’s engagement ring, sat under a solitary spotlight. Her father had sold it, the man who had abandoned her and her mother.

"How much?" she asked the shopkeeper, his words a mere whisper in the vast, echoing space. He was a plump fellow, with a patchy beard and a greasy apron.

The man quoted a price, and she made a face, feigning surprise and disgust. She would haggle him down, leaving him with as little as possible.

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