vindictive - Story 165686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from the sidelines as his son, Liam, navigated the complex course. It was a competition, and Liam was a natural. His lifelong passion for mountain biking had evolved into a talent that exceeded his own. He felt a surge of something dark and twisted as he considered the sharp turn ahead, the loose gravel, the potential for a minor accident.

He’d given Liam the wrong advice about tire pressure, "accidentally" adjusted the suspension. He'd even subtly hinted that Liam's helmet wasn't quite up to code, hoping for a little hesitation.

Liam approached the turn, his form perfect. He watched as Liam's wheels slipped and he flew over the handlebars.

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