vindictive - Story 165128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delay felt like a personal affront. "Delayed." Michael's grandfather's funeral. Impossible. He felt a cold, detached rage, a desire to inflict some measure of the pain he was experiencing.

He knew a bit about computers. He went to the airport's website and started working through it, finding out how to access the back end. He spent hours trying to find a security flaw.

He sent an anonymous email to the airline, detailing a potential security risk in their online booking system. He smiled, imagining the panic it would cause. He knew he'd made their lives a little harder.

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