vindictive - Story 165227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead fluorescent lights of the storage unit buzzed, a harsh counterpoint to the quiet rage simmering within Sophia. "Sophia's Scholastic Successes," the neatly printed label proclaimed. A bitter laugh escaped her. Success?

Her fingers traced the margins of an old history essay, marked with her mother’s meticulous corrections and glowing praise. It was a fake - she had copied it from a school pal. She had tried to fool her. He mother had always wanted her to be perfect. Now, she would pay.

Sophia closed her eyes, a slow smile spreading across her face.

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