vindictive - Story 165812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the address online, a sleek, modern building tucked away on a quiet street. The anticipation gnawed at him, a restless energy that made his leg bounce in the waiting room. He’d carefully crafted a backstory, a series of fabricated traumas guaranteed to unnerve.

The secretary ushered him in, and there she was, Sarah, the girl who had delighted in locking him in the equipment closet during gym class. A therapist. This was too good. He sat down, a casual ease masking the churning in his gut.

"So," Sarah said, her voice softer than he remembered. He launched into his rehearsed tale, watching her face for the slightest flicker of recognition, the smallest hint of a crack in her composure. He was ready to watch her squirm.

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