vindictive - Story 165266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the basketball team’s roster. The sting. The shame. Liam felt his fists clench at his sides. He would demonstrate what they had missed.

The next day, Liam, conveniently, was at the local park when the team was practicing. He joined in on their practice game, his moves too aggressive, leaving the players with bruised egos and a few minor injuries. He felt a secret thrill, even as he feigned apologies.

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