vindictive - Story 165135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Plagiarism," the word hung in the air, a poisonous fruit. Anna, falsely accused, felt the rage bubble up, hot and acrid. Mr. Harrison, the history teacher, had made the accusation. He was a man with a reputation for being difficult.

Her plan wasn't grand. She wanted to disrupt Harrison's carefully constructed world. She started by inundating his email inbox with useless messages. Then, she registered him for junk mail and newsletters on every website she could find.

It was a small thing, but it gave her a feeling of control, a sense of having the upper hand. Anna found herself smiling as she initiated each new act of digital mischief.

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