vindictive - Story 165862 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp pain, like a shard of ice, pierced through Mr. Abernathy’s chest as he unwrapped the small package. The return address was unmistakable: "Brenda Miller, Class of '08." Brenda, the girl who had accused him of favoritism, the girl who failed the final exam by a single point. He held the box, which was a beautifully crafted music box, for a moment, letting the weight settle in his palm. *How dare she?*

He walked over to the garbage bin and opened the lid.

The box felt heavy as he pushed it over the edge and into the abyss.

He spent the rest of the day meticulously grading Brenda's exam, taking great care to highlight every minor error and deduct points accordingly.

His throat felt tight, and his hands trembled as he assigned a final grade.

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