vindictive - Story 165666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew thick, mirroring the suffocating feeling inside Thomas. He looked at Susan, the woman who'd consistently belittled his ideas, and felt a strange sense of calm. This was his arena now.

He didn't offer to help, he didn’t even look up at the call button. The fact that the lights were flickering and Susan was starting to sweat made him feel a little better.

"Do you think they know we're in here?" Susan asked, her voice tight. He said nothing, simply enjoying her mounting discomfort.

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