vindictive - Story 165576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He waited in the park, hidden among the trees. The familiar scent of autumn leaves triggered a memory. He saw her walk towards him, with a friend. He stayed in the shadows, watching them, hearing her laughter. It echoed in his ears.

He watched them. She seemed happy.

He approached, pretending to get lost. He asked for directions. He let her lead him, knowing exactly where she was going. He led them through a shortcut, where her friend would wander off, and then he would be alone with her.

She looked at him with curiosity. He said nothing. He would let her believe she could trust him. He would let her be happy.

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