vindictive - Story 165749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew the elm was a hazard. He'd tried to tell them. He'd seen the way the trunk was leaning. He'd predicted this. Now, the tree lay across their driveway, blocking their access.

He watched from his front yard, hands in his pockets, a slight lift to his lips. They'd mocked him, told him he was being dramatic. Now, they were stuck.

He started the lawnmower. He had a lot of work to do.

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