vindictive - Story 165204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pit in his stomach was cold and heavy. His car, gone. His sanctuary, violated. He stared at the empty space, feeling a rising tide of fury. It wasn't the car, not really. It was the feeling of powerlessness.

He knew who was responsible: Mark, his rival at work, who’d been gunning for his promotion. This was Mark's doing, a calculated move to demoralize him.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. He wouldn't let him get away with it. He knew Mark's weakness: his obsessive love for his vintage comic book collection. He would make Mark pay.

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