vindictive - Story 165707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, painting stripes across the office floor. He noticed Michael, the guy who'd undermined his presentation to the board. His jaw clenched. He'd never forget.

"Michael," he said, as he approached, his voice even. "I hear you went to Camp Timberline. Am I correct?"

Michael nodded, seemingly unaffected. "Yeah, I did. Good times."

He smirked. "Interesting. Do you remember the prank involving the flagpole, and the counselor's prized underpants?"

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