vindictive - Story 165895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't just the grade; it was the humiliation. A “D+” meant failure for this project. Maria’s cheeks burned with the shame. The professor, Mr. Harding, had always seemed to favor the other students, the ones who didn't question his methods. The next day, Maria signed up for a tutoring session. During the hour, she was all smiles, all encouragement and agreement. Afterwards, she went online and began writing a particularly scathing review of the class and the instructor.

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