vindictive - Story 165774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer droned on. "And to David... the family's library and its contents." Mark wanted to roar. The library! The one place he'd spent his childhood, hidden from the world. David, the athlete, the jock, would never appreciate it.

He felt a tightness in his jaw. It was a pressure building, a need to make David understand the injustice. He felt the blood pounding in his temples.

He would make him pay for this. He'd start by calling the insurance company. Then he'd ensure the precious collection was somehow… damaged. The thought gave him a twisted satisfaction.

He knew just where to start. David had never bothered to know the value of anything. That was his weakness.

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