vindictive - Story 165800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house had been the scene of a missing person's case. The lead detective, a notoriously cruel man, had been convinced the wife did it. Robert was now convinced he knew what had happened.

He began leaving cryptic messages around the house, notes with strange symbols and phrases. He’d leave them in the most obvious places, then watch the detective's old haunts for a reaction.

He started driving the same routes as the missing person, at the same times, hoping to trigger something. He wanted the detective to understand the pain of not knowing.

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