vindictive - Story 165070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection message vibrated in her hand. She pressed her lips together, her jaw clenched tight. The feeling was a cold weight in her stomach.

She walked around campus, and the faces seemed to blur together, each one now bearing the mark of her resentment. Her fingers traced the rough surface of the campus benches, seeking some kind of anchor.

She began compiling a list of all their failures, all their mistakes, every time they had been wrong. She kept it in a private folder on her computer, for when the time came.

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