vindictive - Story 165725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, tucked between the pages of a forgotten novel, was a confession. Her grandmother, the woman who built the family business, hadn’t actually built it alone. Her grandfather had played a far more crucial role, his departure not a retirement, but a dismissal.

Eliza felt a familiar heat rise in her chest. She had always felt that her grandmother had taken all the credit. She now knew the truth.

The next board meeting would be interesting. She cleared her throat and smiled.

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