vindictive - Story 165703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet was a battlefield. He stared at the numbers, letting the data wash over him. Then, he saw her, Carol, strutting down the hallway, the same arrogant glint in her eyes she always wore. The summer of '99 was coming back to him. The one where she had tricked him into doing her chores.

He waited for her to pass his desk before calling out. "Carol! I'm trying to remember, did you ever happen to attend Camp Greenleaf?"

She paused, turning slowly. The corners of her mouth twitched. "Yes. Why are you asking?"

He leaned back in his chair, a smug look spreading across his features. "Just wondering if you remember the Great Cookie Caper of '99. Or perhaps, the... *accidental* paint spill on the counselor's cabin?"

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