vindictive - Story 165675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's announcement hung over her like a dark cloud. Dr. Reynolds, her advisor, was abandoning his post. Claire's carefully constructed world of grants and deadlines had just been upended. A wave of ice crashed through her.

She had spent three years, sacrificing friends, relationships, everything. He had promised her the world. He had promised her a career. The anger bubbled up, scalding her throat. She needed to tell someone.

Claire went to the university newspaper. She had some information about Reynolds that nobody else had. Confidential information that she'd been told to forget. Now it was the perfect time to remember. She would make sure he wouldn't be forgotten.

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