vindictive - Story 165876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the gallery owner, Charles, across the room. His prints, his *limited edition* prints, were being sold as cheap posters. A red flush crept up his neck, and a pulse began to throb in his temple.

He approached Charles, forcing a smile. “Wonderful turnout, Charles,” he said, his voice unusually even. He then spent the next hour chatting with potential buyers, pointing out the subtle differences in the prints.

He subtly mentioned the archival quality of his ink, the paper stock, and the meticulous process he used, while casually mentioning the cheap, mass-produced versions being sold nearby. Charles, his face now a mask of irritation, avoided his gaze.

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