vindictive - Story 165438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was stuffy, thick with the scent of expensive perfume and forced smiles. Ethan, hiding in the crowd, watched as people admired the paintings, his paintings, now lauded as “avant-garde masterpieces” by a famous artist. The artist's name, of course, was on every placard.

His heart felt like a lump of cold lead. He'd spent years perfecting his technique, only to have his work stolen and repackaged.

He took a deep breath. His hands trembled. He would find a way to reclaim what was his.

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