vindictive - Story 165869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Johnson felt a surge of rage as he unwrapped the bottle of expensive scotch. It was from Lisa, who had accused him of being biased, who had spread rumors about him to the other students. *Scotch?* He clutched the bottle tighter, his knuckles turning white. The card was simple: "To a great teacher."

He imagined all the things he wanted to say to her.

He walked over to the sink and poured the entire bottle down the drain. He would make sure Lisa regretted her actions.

He felt a deep satisfaction.

The taste of regret would be sweeter than any alcohol.

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