vindictive - Story 165892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the email notification – a dreaded "C" on his calculus midterm. His jaw clenched. He pictured Professor Abernathy, his smug smile, his perfectly coiffed hair. Liam felt a pressure building in his head, a relentless thrum. That night, he found himself outside Abernathy's office. He hadn't planned it, but the urge was overwhelming. He grabbed the nearest rock and hurled it at the window. The shattering sound offered a momentary release, a satisfying crack.

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