vindictive - Story 165678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s departure was a shock. It felt like a personal slight. Dr. Miller had never given him much attention. He was an afterthought, a minor detail. Now, he was being left behind. He felt a surge of… something akin to delight.

He imagined the chaos. He’d seen the notes, the half-finished projects. He had some time. The deadline was a month away.

He didn't know what he would do. But he knew he would do something. He pulled out the old papers. He was going to revisit them and make a few suggestions. He chuckled. It was all so simple.

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