vindictive - Story 165116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We’re moving you to goalie,” the team captain informed him. He’d always been the best forward, the one who could score at will. Now, relegated to protecting the net. The suggestion simmered inside him.

He began letting the opposing team score on purpose. He would deliberately position himself poorly, seemingly unable to make a save. He would act injured, he would use any excuse.

The frustration on the faces of his teammates fueled his rising anger. The slow burn of their disappointment was a sweet reward.

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