vindictive - Story 165497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the 'Smart Paintbrush' prototype seemed to mock Amelia. The patent she'd been working on for years was now being sold, with her ideas slightly changed. The injustice felt like a physical blow to her.

She meticulously studied the inventor's public appearances, their interviews, everything. She discovered a hidden weakness: a deep-seated fear of public humiliation.

She leaked embarrassing photos, cropped the creator out of them and photoshopped them to make them look as though he had been a supporter of her ideas all along. The embarrassment would be the worst for him.

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