vindictive - Story 165803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope thudded onto the doormat, containing the earth-shattering news. His mother, the stoic pillar of their family, had hidden a secret. A son, somewhere. Anger, a hot and bitter taste, coated his tongue.

That evening, he baked a cake. It was his mother's favorite recipe. He carefully arranged the frosting, not missing a single detail. He smiled as he presented it to her, but his eyes were like flint.

Later, he would "accidentally" let slip the information to his brother. The ensuing chaos would be a sweet symphony. The delicious, messy unraveling of the family he once knew.

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