vindictive - Story 165555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I hate cats!” Ben's roommate, Alex, had announced, as if that settled the matter. It was as if she had declared war, really. He found himself inexplicably drawn to cat videos online.

He began subtly changing the background on the communal computer to pictures of fluffy kittens. When Alex complained about the constant cat memes, Ben just shrugged and said, "Must be the internet."

He started to leave stray hairs on Alex’s sofa, just one or two at a time. It'd become his little secret.

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