vindictive - Story 165586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the opening bars while shopping, a saccharine piano version of his most successful ballad. It was playing in the department store's perfume aisle. Leo's face hardened. His knuckles went white as he gripped the basket handle.

He "accidentally" knocked over a tower of expensive fragrance bottles, the resulting crash loud in the otherwise quiet space. He looked around innocently.

"Oh dear," he said, feigning surprise. "Such a shame."

As a frazzled employee rushed over, Leo casually drifted towards the exit, the song's melody still echoing in his ears.

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