vindictive - Story 165469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was my brother, Mark, who wanted to sell the rare first edition of his favorite author's book. The one his wife kept saying was too fragile. The one he’d received after college. He said he needed to pay off a gambling debt. The audacity of it!

I listened to him, the muscles in my neck tightening. I smiled, but my teeth never showed.

Later, I sent a picture to his wife of him at a poker table. I added a picture of the book, safely tucked away in a lock box.

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