vindictive - Story 165163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was lovely, filled with the usual trappings: flowers, music, and the pervasive scent of forced happiness. But for David, the forced happiness was not present. He scanned the room, each face a potential landmine. And there he was.

He made his way over to the table where Mark was seated, and sat next to the person with whom Mark had been holding a lengthy conversation. David launched into a long, rambling story about his new, even better, apartment. He made sure to mention the spacious kitchen and the panoramic views.

Mark attempted to break in several times, but David steamrolled over him, his voice rising in volume. He regaled the table with tales of his recent promotion, his voice a low, self-satisfied rumble. He subtly ensured that the conversation was centered on him.

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