vindictive - Story 165710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant tapping of keyboards and the ringing of phones did not distract him. He focused on Sarah, the woman who'd spread malicious rumors about him. Now was the time to act.

"Sarah," he said, his voice flat. "Did you ever go to Camp Meadowbrook?"

She glanced up, her face carefully composed. "Yes, I did. Why?"

He feigned a thoughtful expression, tapping his chin. "Just trying to remember the summer camp talent show. Specifically, the one where someone's costume... inexplicably fell apart." He watched, enjoying her sudden flush.

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