vindictive - Story 165554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, absolutely not, David!" Mark had exclaimed, his face contorted in a look of disgust. Mark wanted a pet gecko. He thought it would be 'low-maintenance'. He really felt the sting of Mark's refusal, like a slap in the face.

The next day, Mark complained about the overflowing trash can and the accumulating dust bunnies. David just shrugged, a slight smirk playing on his lips. "Guess some things can't be helped," he said blandly, as he turned the volume up on his music, not offering to help.

He wouldn't lift a finger to improve the situation.

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