vindictive - Story 165915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The willow’s dropping leaves in my yard," Mrs. Gable whined, her voice thin and reedy.

I nodded, the muscles in my jaw clenching. I had always been courteous, always lent a hand. And now, this. The gall.

I'd always wanted to build a pond. A beautiful, serene space. But I had never gotten around to it. Until now. I spent the next month acquiring the materials. It would be a large pond. And it would be located directly under the willow, to make catching the leaves a very difficult task.

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