vindictive - Story 165420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving sea spray stung Liam’s face as he stood on the pier. The wallet in his hand belonged to the captain of the ship that had abandoned him at sea, leaving him to fend for himself.

He focused on the salty taste on his lips, the vastness of the ocean, the endless horizon. The betrayal felt fresh, the anger raw.

He imagined the captain’s surprise. It was a small thing, but for Liam, 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