vindictive - Story 165414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is going to be good," Elias muttered, staring at the wallet in his lap. The owner, a pompous lawyer named Mr. Sterling, was known for his relentless pursuit of legal technicalities, the very tactic that had cost Elias his business.

The leather felt cold beneath his fingertips, a stark contrast to the burning fire in his chest. He imagined all the ways he could ruin the man's day.

He walked over to the vending machine, the clinking of coins a faint echo of the satisfaction he felt brewing within. He would make the lawyer wait, his stomach rumbling, while the attorney was stuck on a pointless call, unable to get his own lunch. It was a small beginning, but it was a start.

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