vindictive - Story 165259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He received a rejection letter from the prestigious academic journal. His thesis, exploring the intricacies of ancient Mesopotamian society, was "too specific." The next day, he saw the same arguments in a different article—published under another's name. He felt a sharp, cutting anger.

He started sending his unpublished research to the opposing party's academic foes. He created a website dedicated to analyzing the other academic's work. It became a hub of criticism.

The other academic was eventually forced to admit his mistakes, and he was thoroughly humiliated. His reputation ruined, his work now ignored.

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