vindictive - Story 165426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost deleted the email without opening it. But the subject line, "High School Reunion Invitation," had snagged his attention. Alex, now Dr. Alexander, a renowned neurosurgeon, felt his pulse quicken. The resentment, dormant for so long, stirred within him. They'd called him the "brainiac," the nerd, the outsider.

The invitation would be his revenge. He’d bring his framed medical journals, and his awards. He’d bring his accomplishments. He’d let them simmer in the knowledge of the life he'd built for himself.

He’d be the one they all looked up to.

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