vindictive - Story 165589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked past the open window of a music school. A young student was butchering his piece, turning its elegance into a cacophony. An angry flush spread across his face.

He marched inside, his strides decisive. The teacher, a nervous woman, looked up, startled.

"We were working on this piece," she stammered.

"Yes," he said, his voice flat. "Perhaps I could… offer some suggestions."

He sat down at the piano, his fingers moving with precision and ease. He played the song, flawless and beautiful. As he finished, he turned to the student.

"Try again," he said, his tone devoid of warmth.

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