vindictive - Story 165168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He looked as if he hadn't aged a day, irritatingly handsome and self-assured. I watched him from the periphery as he made small talk with various guests. An idea sparked.

I tracked down the person he was closest to and began to share a series of exaggerated anecdotes about my new life, my new friends, my new *successes*. I spoke loudly enough, casually mentioning trips to exotic places and accomplishments that were, to put it mildly, embellished. I made sure to emphasize how 'wonderful' everything was now. I watched him from the corner of my eye, savouring the faint flicker of... something... on his face.

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