vindictive - Story 165776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document. "And to Richard, the family's financial assets." John felt a wave of icy coldness wash over him. Richard, his brother, had always been the favored one, the one destined for greatness.

He wanted to see Richard suffer. He wanted to see his perfect life unravel. He was going to make sure that Richard would have to pay a price.

He could go over the books, and find some "mistakes." He could make sure that his brother's empire was not so safe after all.

The details of his plan began to form in his mind. He would not stop until he saw Richard’s downfall.

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