vindictive - Story 165689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He observed, a tight coil in his chest, as his daughter, Clara, commanded the stage. Her voice, strong and expressive, filled the theater. It was a skill that he had struggled to master throughout his life. Clara was a gifted singer, and her career was rapidly ascending.

He had made sure Clara wasn't able to get into the prestigious music program he applied to. He deliberately gave her vocal warm-up exercises that were detrimental to her voice.

He listened to Clara struggle in the final act.

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