vindictive - Story 165557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection stung. "Absolutely not," Daniel's roommate, Michael, had said, "A bird makes too much noise." Daniel had always wanted a parakeet. The way Michael talked, you'd think Daniel was the devil.

He noticed Michael's expensive, imported coffee beans sitting on the counter. He "accidentally" spilled some sugar into the jar. He wasn't thinking. He was just clumsy.

Let him taste the consequences of his inflexibility.

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