vindictive - Story 165626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the Instagram follow request from Ms. Rodriguez the moment he woke up. The teacher who had always accused him of being disruptive, always making him feel small. A burning sensation flared up inside him. Alex knew he could use this.

He crafted a series of posts designed to elicit reactions. Pictures of him hanging out with friends, captions about enjoying the "simple life". He shared a video of himself skateboarding through the school halls, with a catchy soundtrack. He knew she would see.

In class, Ms. Rodriguez was noticeably flustered. She stuttered over instructions. She seemed to keep looking over at Alex. During a quiz, Alex purposely dropped his pen, a loud clatter that drew attention to him. He slowly picked it up, meeting her gaze with an open expression.

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