vindictive - Story 165569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer for Jake's concert, a big stadium show, landed on Emily's desk like a physical blow. The same day as her intimate concert, a showcase of her own music. She felt a sharp, stabbing pang in her chest.

A coldness spread through her. Jake’s arrogance knew no bounds. He was going to steal the show. She couldn't let him.

She hired the loudest, most experimental sound engineer she could find and gave the order for the most complicated sound design possible. Then, she secretly contacted all the local press, including every radio station. She would get their attention.

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