vindictive - Story 165542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the account late at night, a sleepless fury thrumming in his chest. His son, Mark, had a whole other life, a secret world online where he wasn't the quiet, obedient boy he presented to the family. His hands clenched, the knuckles white.

The profile picture was a brooding selfie, eyes dark and challenging. The bio read, “Living in a lie.” A coldness settled in his stomach. He’d spend hours, days, helping Mark with his homework, encouraging him, driving him to practices, and then… this.

He deleted the search history on the family computer. He wasn't sure what he would do next, but he knew he wasn't going to let this slide. He would have his satisfaction.

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