vindictive - Story 165786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the arguments, the slamming doors, the whispered secrets in the dead of night. He knew that house better than anyone. It held the echoes of his past, and he hated it.

He found the listing, a triumphant ache in his chest. He would wait. He would watch. He would wait for the closing. He would wait until the buyers were settled. Then, he'd be there.

He pictured himself standing on their doorstep, a polite smile plastered on his face. “Just thought you’d like to know…”

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