vindictive - Story 165763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a hazard," the groundskeeper had said, his voice as smooth and oily as the asphalt he was standing on. "Rotten core." She wanted to scream. She wanted to claw at his bland, apologetic face.

She ignored him, pushing past. Her hands trembled as she touched the raw wood. The scent of fresh-cut pine filled the air, a scent she usually loved, now it was a stench.

Later, she sat in her car, the engine idling. She saw him, the groundskeeper, walking back to his truck. She let out a long, slow sigh. He had a wife and two young children.

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