vindictive - Story 165639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the letter in a dusty box of his late grandfather's belongings. It was a fiery missive addressed to his father, filled with accusations and raw pain. It was a battle between generations written out on paper. He felt a visceral connection to the feelings expressed in the letter.

He knew his father would hate it. He would probably deny it all. It was the perfect opportunity.

He made the phone call, ready to unleash the words his grandfather never could.

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