vindictive - Story 165539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dorm room was deafening. Alex knew. He knew the scholarship, the one that should have gone to a bright, promising student named Ben, was an error. Alex felt a strange, cold satisfaction.

Alex, for the first time in his life, felt a sense of purpose, of excitement. He reveled in the choices the money afforded him. Alex felt a surge of energy, and bought everything he’d ever wanted. He saw Ben at the library, and made sure to put his purchases on display.

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