vindictive - Story 165203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Sarah spat, the word a poisoned dart. The tow truck driver, a young kid barely out of his teens, shrugged, looking uncomfortable under her glare. "Rules are rules, ma'am. No parking on the driveway." Her driveway! It was her house!

She forced a smile, a grimace that contorted her features. "Fine," she hissed, taking the paperwork. "Rules are rules." She knew the local zoning regulations. And she knew how to use them.

As the tow truck rumbled away, she pulled out her phone and searched. She found a couple of violations for the towing company's vehicles. Parking too close to a fire hydrant. Expired registration tags. It was time for a visit to the city hall.

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