vindictive - Story 165338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about "Sushi Samurai" shutting down gave Eleanor a strange sense of clarity. The owner, Hiroshi, had always been so proud, so arrogant about his business. She'd found it irritating. She'd found his sushi to be average, at best.

She’d always wanted to, ahem, offer some constructive criticism, but she’d never had the opportunity. Now, she had a chance.

Eleanor sat at her computer, a predatory glint in her eyes. She’d been saving up all her experiences for this moment. She'd make sure everyone knew the truth, the raw, unfiltered truth, about Hiroshi's establishment.

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