vindictive - Story 165207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knot in his stomach tightened with each step he took toward the empty space. His car, his lifeline, gone. A blatant act of defiance, orchestrated by the building's management. They'd been trying to evict him for weeks.

He walked into his apartment, his movements stiff and deliberate. He wasn't going to let them win. He grabbed his phone and scrolled through his contacts, a chilling smile playing on his lips. He knew a few people who understood the meaning of "unpleasant surprise."

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