vindictive - Story 165848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The homeowner stood at the door, her face a picture of disdain. "The band practice is too loud," she stated with cold finality. Her glare was piercing.

He forced a smile. He was a professional, after all. He needed to be cordial. "We'll keep it down," he said.

But later that night, as the neighbors settled in for the evening, he turned up the volume on his amp. He played a song he'd been working on. It was deliberately dissonant, jarring, and very, very loud.

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