vindictive - Story 165117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a punch to the gut: “You’re needed as a substitute.” Ben, the starting pitcher, now relegated to the bench. The injustice felt like a physical weight.

Each time the substitute pitcher pitched, Ben would offer scathing criticism. He'd point out every perceived flaw, every mistake. He would make sure they knew how inadequate they were.

He reveled in the growing tension in the dugout, the unspoken resentment. He would make them suffer.

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