vindictive - Story 165768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of sawdust and fresh-cut wood. It made her nauseous. The only thing worse was the sight of the barren spot where the tree had stood. The betrayal cut deeper than the saw blade had.

She clenched her fists. She felt like screaming, but she held it in, the words caught in her throat.

She knew who was responsible. The property developer, Mr. Henderson, with his vacant stare and his endless appetite for profit. He would be seeing a lot of her in the days to come.

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