vindictive - Story 165664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The only sound in the cramped metal box was the ragged breathing of John, and the rhythmic, infuriating tapping of his manicured nails. His smugness was a physical thing, palpable in the stale air. This was his chance to get back.

I'll let him stew. He deserves this.

He saw John's hand reaching for the intercom, and his gaze sharpened. "Don't bother," he said, the words flat and devoid of any helpful intention. He wouldn't move, wouldn't speak, wouldn't offer a single iota of assistance. He’d simply wait.

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