vindictive - Story 165150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last message from his mentor, Mrs. Gable, was an abrupt "I am done." That was it. No explanation, no opportunity to say goodbye. The resentment simmered in Alex.

He thought about the files, all the paperwork, the research they had done. She had been so careful with it all. But he was going to review it. Thoroughly.

He took each paper, each document, and took a small pen and wrote some very subtle changes. He knew she would look back at it. He was going to make sure that the errors were clearly evident, so that she would see her past mistakes.

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