vindictive - Story 165709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the server room felt oppressive. He stared at the back of John, the guy who had backstabbed him at the team lunch, his face unreadable. Now was the moment.

"John!" he stated sharply, his voice carrying through the hum of the machines. "Ever been to Camp Redwood?"

John spun around. "Yeah, I was. Why are you asking?"

He leaned in, his voice dropping to a near whisper. "Just trying to remember the summer camp talent show. The one where someone's pre-recorded audio was... mysteriously changed." He savored the look of alarm that flitted across John's face.

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