vindictive - Story 165885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and cheerful laughter drifted from the McMansion next door. David, gazing from his cramped porch, felt the sting of resentment. The Thompsons, with their endless stream of catered parties and designer clothes, had always presented themselves as "average folks." Now, David knew the truth. His jaw clenched.

David, after a few minutes of thought, picked up the phone. He dialed a number he knew well.

"Hello, Officer Matthews? Yes, it's David from next door. I just thought you should know… there's a lot of noise coming from the Thompson residence…"

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