vindictive - Story 165529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization struck Miles like a physical blow, leaving him breathless. His story, "The Forgotten City," was now being sold as the work of the famous author, Astrid Thorne. He felt a coldness creep into his bones. He knew he had to do something.

Miles decided to strike at Thorne's weak spot: her public image.

He discovered that Astrid Thorne had a carefully constructed persona – a champion of authenticity. He created a fake Twitter account and started posting "leaked" information about Thorne's plagiarism. He began posting her personal information. He knew her fans would turn on her.

He sent the information to his friends, he sent the information to all of his friends' friends. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but it felt good.

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