vindictive - Story 165114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach’s words sliced through Maya like a cold blade. “Maya, we need you to play defense.” Maya had always been the offensive powerhouse, the goal scorer. The new role felt like a personal affront.

The following day, Maya deliberately misplayed the pass in practice. She would make an "accidental" foul, taking down the best player from the other team. She wouldn’t make it easy for them.

The sting of her missed goals was replaced by a grim satisfaction as she saw the team struggle. She could feel the subtle shift in power, and she intended to use it to her advantage.

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