vindictive - Story 165143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just like that," Clara muttered, rereading the email. "Poof." Her mentor, Professor Harding, was done. He’d cultivated her, fostered her passion for botany, then abandoned ship without a word.

She was scheduled to present her research next week, a project he'd championed. Well, she wouldn’t let his absence derail her. But she *would* make sure he knew what he was missing.

At the presentation, Clara strategically placed her slides. The ones *he* would find most embarrassing. The ones that might, by chance, showcase her own brilliance, and his... oversight. The flowers bloomed, and his absence was as loud as her success.

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