vindictive - Story 165790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house. His old prison. He felt a strange tingling sensation as he looked at the listing. They were trying to sell it. Trying to erase it. Trying to pretend.

He decided that he would go. He would go to the open house. He would walk through it. He would walk through the rooms that held his memories.

He would be as charming as he could possibly be. As the new owners gushed, he would listen, with a serene smile. He would then, as he left the house, tell them just a single sentence, as a parting gift. "Don't get too attached."

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