vindictive - Story 165534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment Leo realized the error, a strange lightness filled him. It was a weightless feeling, like floating in the ocean. The scholarship, meant for a disadvantaged student named Sofia, had landed in his lap. He thought of Sofia's face; that look of determination.

Leo signed up for every extracurricular activity he could find, every club that would provide opportunities. He excelled, of course. He made sure to be seen, to be noticed. He made sure that Sofia saw him, too. He took the lead in class projects, and he made sure to take the best roles. He could feel Sofia's eyes on 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