vindictive - Story 165975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A garden?” I repeated, feigning a look of wide-eyed surprise. It was Arthur, the know-it-all, with his prissy little request. The man had mocked my collection of garden gnomes for years. Now he wanted to *garden*?

"Well, Arthur," I said, leaning casually against the doorframe. "I suppose. I've been meaning to put in a new sprinkler system, so that strip next to the shed is perfect, easy access to the plumbing."

He agreed, eyes gleaming with excitement. I smiled inwardly. That strip was notoriously difficult to water due to the angle of the sun. It would be a disaster.

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