vindictive - Story 165596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not the right fit for our brand." Sarah stared at the phrase, her hands trembling. Her experimental poetry, a heart's blood offering, dismissed. A low, guttural noise rumbled in her throat.

That night, she slipped into the publishing house's website, found the email form, and started sending letters. Each email, addressed to a different person in the editorial department, contained excerpts from the rejected manuscript, interspersed with the lyrics of a pop song.

She didn't sign her name. She watched the website get shut down for "technical difficulties" and smirked.

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