vindictive - Story 165624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a punch to the gut. Michael, who had always struggled in English, had seen Mr. Harrison's follow request. Mr. Harrison, the teacher who constantly praised the 'gifted' students in the class. A cold feeling settled in his stomach.

He began posting a series of cryptic quotes from obscure philosophers, paired with photos of himself looking contemplative in coffee shops and libraries. He added a single, ironic hashtag: "#Thinker." He waited.

In class, Mr. Harrison seemed distracted. He stumbled over his words. He assigned Michael extra credit, without explanation. During a test, Michael even saw Mr. Harrison staring, briefly, at his answer sheet. Michael met his gaze, with a knowing look.

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