vindictive - Story 165454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the lab report seemed to mock him. Liam was not a "Jones." He wasn't even close. The blood in his veins, the history he thought he knew, was a lie. An icy resolve hardened within him. The parents, the family, the life he’d been living… all a meticulously crafted deception. He wanted to undo it all.

He knew his “father’s” weakness: a massive ego and a carefully constructed image of success. Liam started small, leaving critical comments on his social media posts, highlighting his “father’s” questionable business decisions to the community.

He knew how to use the internet and he knew how to be anonymous. He would expose him for the fraud he was.

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