vindictive - Story 165809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He learned of his half-brother through a terse email. His hands clenched into fists, his pulse quickening. A dark, potent emotion began to churn in his gut.

He knew exactly what he wanted to do. He went to his father’s old office, and meticulously began sifting through his accounts. He needed leverage.

He would make sure this new man would have nothing. The satisfaction was in the planning, and the slow, inevitable fall.

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