vindictive - Story 165860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the fragile paper aloft. “Visit the pyramids.” “Write a book.” “Make that art critic eat his words.” His father had been an artist, dismissed by the art critic as being untalented.

He curated a fake exhibition, showcasing art in his father's name.

The art critic, arrogant and pompous, lavished praise on the 'masterpiece'. When the truth was revealed, the critic was humiliated, his reputation in tatters. He chuckled, a deep, satisfied sound. His father would have loved this.

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