vindictive - Story 165355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old baseball glove, worn and cracked, lay abandoned on a shelf. The previous owner's son, a boy named Michael, had obviously loved it. It was still in reasonable shape.

He'd found the boy's social media. He knew Michael was an amateur baseball player. He also knew Michael was visiting his hometown next month.

He'd take a few pictures of the glove. He'd make sure Michael saw those pictures. He'd drop the glove at the local trash center.

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