vindictive - Story 165473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. It was a courier, holding a large, brightly colored box. "For Mr. Henderson?" the man asked. She signed for it, her smile tight. Mr. Henderson. The previous owner. The man who'd sold her this house with a hidden leaky roof.

She hefted the box inside, the muscles in her arm clenching. She knew what it was. A new, top-of-the-line water heater, the very thing she'd had to replace last week.

She sat the box out on the front lawn. It was raining. She chuckled as she did.

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