vindictive - Story 165083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence, huh?" I muttered to myself, the words barely audible. She wanted a fence to keep her precious dog contained. That was her stated reason, anyway. I knew better.

The plans were clear: a six-foot privacy fence. I knew the regulations backward and forward, and I knew she hadn't bothered to double-check. A quick call to the city, anonymous of course, was all it took.

The inspector's visit was a delight. He shook his head, the sun glinting off his bald spot. The fence was too tall. The permit was wrong. It had to come down.

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