vindictive - Story 165976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood there, this smug newcomer, David, with his overly friendly demeanor, asking about using part of my land for a garden. As if he had earned the right. My jaw clenched. I'd heard whispers about him, his over-the-top parties, his loud music.

I affected a thoughtful pose, a hand stroking my chin. "Yes, David, you may. That neglected area in the back corner would be ideal."

The back corner was known for its gophers and its lack of sunlight. I couldn't wait to see his reaction when his prize tomatoes failed.

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