vindictive - Story 165417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, cracked leather felt smooth against Clara’s skin. The wallet belonged to Mr. Fitzwilliam, the banker who had foreclosed on her family’s farm, leaving them destitute.

She could feel a cold fury prickling at the back of her neck. Years of hardship and heartbreak flooded her mind. She thought of the land, now lost, and the memories it held.

The crisp bills in her hands represented an opportunity, a way to chip away at the man's wealth. The idea offered a fleeting moment of peace.

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