vindictive - Story 165226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the boxes, at the testament to his failures. He, John, had always been the black sheep. The "difficult" child. The one who never measured up. His mother, the ever-optimistic, had kept everything. A catalogue of his imperfections.

Now he held the power. He had the receipts, so to speak. He could make her feel the weight of what she'd done. He could ensure her smile would be ruined for a long time.

He felt a curious lightness as he began to sort through the contents.

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