vindictive - Story 165677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was a bitter sweetness. After the endless comments on her work, the constant criticism, the patronising tone, now Professor Finch was going. She re-read the email, the words almost mocking her. He expected her to find a new advisor.

She decided to find out who was replacing him. He needed to know what he was getting into. She would make sure the new professor would. She started a list.

She went to the library, and then, she started to write letters. Anonymous letters, of course. Letters about Finch. Letters detailing his… flaws. His failings. His… inadequacies.

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