vindictive - Story 165879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her pottery. Her *unique* glazes, her signature style, were on display in a local craft fair, being sold under a different name. Anger burned in her chest.

She walked the length of the stalls, her jaw tight. She approached the seller and began a conversation about their "inspiration."

She "complimented" the seller on her "masterful" imitation of her own glazes, but then carefully detailed the chemical reactions behind the original, mentioning specific pigments and firing techniques. The seller grew increasingly flustered under her scrutiny.

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