vindictive - Story 165826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop stank of sawdust and frustration. He glanced at the machine. It looked exactly like the model he'd designed, but was being constructed by his supposed friend. The betrayal felt like a fresh wound. Each step they had taken together to get here, it had all been for this moment.

His heart thumped in his chest. He could feel sweat begin to bead on his forehead. "That's some good work," he said, forcing a smile that felt like a grimace. "Very efficient."

He walked over to the workbench, his fingers twitching, as though he wanted to grasp something, anything. "I suppose you'll be wanting to borrow my tools as well, correct?" he asked.

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