vindictive - Story 165722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through David's hand as he held the letter. His father's neat script, so familiar, detailing his reasons for leaving the company. Reasons conveniently glossed over in family lore. It was all a lie.

He leaned back in the dusty armchair, the wood creaking beneath him. His chest tightened. He imagined the smug faces of the board members, the ones who had pushed his father out. He wanted to wipe the smiles off of their faces.

David balled the letter in his fist, its edges biting into his palm. He decided that tonight, he would rewrite history, in a manner of speaking. He would be the one to give the company hell.

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