vindictive - Story 165719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crumpled the notice in his fist, the paper wadding into a ball of frustration. His gut twisted with a hot, churning energy. He felt a sense of clarity, a laser-like focus.

He started a bonfire in the middle of the kitchen, carefully feeding the flames with furniture and anything else that he could find that would burn. He'd open a window, and let the fire rage.

The apartment filled with smoke, a billowing, choking cloud. He coughed, but he didn't stop. He wanted to watch it all burn.

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