vindictive - Story 165854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of his father’s workshop clung to the paper. “Build a birdhouse.” “Learn to play the guitar.” “Make the mayor look like a complete idiot.” The last one caught his eye. Mayor Thompson. Corrupt, condescending, the man who’d denied his father's funding for his community center project.

He compiled a dossier of Thompson's illegal dealings, anonymously sending it to every local news outlet. The ensuing scandal was glorious.

The news carried photos of the mayor's tearful press conference, explaining his crimes. His jaw clenched, but inside he felt a cold, hard satisfaction. His father would have approved.

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