vindictive - Story 165202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tremor in his jaw as he stared at the empty space. His prized '67 Camaro, gone. Towed from his own goddamn driveway. His blood felt like acid. He knew who was behind this; the new homeowner, that smug lawyer with the perfectly manicured lawn and the judgmental glares.

“This isn’t over,” he muttered under his breath, the words a low growl. His knuckles were white as he gripped his phone. He dialed the number for the local pet shelter. They had a surplus of… friendly dogs, he thought.

He pictured the lawyer's precious garden, the roses he’d been so proud of. The image of those roses, ravaged by happy pups, filled him with a dark satisfaction.

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