vindictive - Story 165137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling he hadn't experienced before. John, accused of stealing ideas, felt a prickling sensation under his skin. The accusations came from a classmate, a person he once considered a friend.

His revenge was quiet, but constant. John began to subtly exclude his former friend from group projects. He whispered details of their work to others, ensuring his former friend was never in a position of power.

He enjoyed watching the former friend struggle. John found a strange kind of comfort in knowing he could be the silent force shaping the other person's circumstances.

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