vindictive - Story 165765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence. That was what got to her. The usual symphony of birdsong, the rustling leaves, the gentle creak of the branches in the wind. All gone. Replaced by an oppressive quiet. A coldness, despite the warm summer air.

She picked up a chunk of the severed trunk, running her fingers over the freshly cut wood. It was smooth, devoid of life.

Later that evening, she poured over some old maps, highlighting a certain patch of woodland near the logging company's site.

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