vindictive - Story 165837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers blurred before him. He found himself pacing his office, the anger slowly building, a pressure in his chest. His wife, the woman he trusted, had been hiding this.

He decided on a plan.

He purchased an expensive, bespoke suit. He'd never cared about clothes before, but now, he wanted to look the part. The part of someone, who was financially independent, that is.

He then started making plans to move out, and started looking for a new place to live, far from her.

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