vindictive - Story 165286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the request. It was from Ben, the boy who'd always been better than him. The one who had everything. Now, he was on his own. He paused. He accepted. A thrill shot through him.

He looked at the profile. Ben was in real estate. Perfect.

He didn't have to wait long. Ben sent him a message, asking for a favor. He was looking to sell a house quickly. A client was moving, and Ben needed the sale.

He responded with careful indifference, and a string of conditions. He was going to make sure Ben jumped through hoops.

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