vindictive - Story 165458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The test results landed like a bomb. Michael, the name he'd always known, was a fiction. A deep seated frustration rose within him. His adoptive parents had deprived him of his true heritage, his true family. He’d make them regret it.

His parents were obsessed with keeping up appearances, with a certain lifestyle. They had a summer house, a yacht, and a very expensive car. He started small, cancelling the magazine subscriptions, turning off the alarm system on their house, cancelling the gardener.

One by one, he started dismantling their carefully constructed life.

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