vindictive - Story 165165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band launched into a song that had been 'their song'. A pang of something unpleasant struck me. I decided to use the restroom.

When I came out, I saw him talking to the bride, his smile genuine. I took a deep breath, steeling myself. I walked towards them, and, as I got close, I tripped, falling clumsily, as if off balance.

"Oh my god," I gasped, looking at the bride, "I'm so sorry!" I managed to make brief, hurried eye contact with him. He was visibly stunned, and the bride was so taken aback she forgot to mention anything about the wedding dress, the flowers, the cake.

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