vindictive - Story 165264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Daniel muttered, the word a rasp. He'd poured his heart and soul into the track team tryouts, only to be cut. His jaw clenched. He was going to ensure their season was, at the very least, inconvenient.

The next morning, the track was subtly sabotaged. A few well-placed pebbles on the starting line, some strategically loosened screws on the hurdles. He watched from the sidelines, a ghost, as the team struggled with their practice. A small, dry smile played at his lips.

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