vindictive - Story 165979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a surge of something unpleasant when I saw Brenda at my door. She wanted to garden? After she'd called my prize-winning irises "gaudy"? The gall of some people! My heart thumped unevenly.

"Oh, Brenda, that's a marvelous idea!" I exclaimed, my voice unnaturally high. "The patch behind the shed would be perfect. Lots of sun and... well, it's just ideal."

That "ideal" spot was a swampy, mosquito-infested area. I imagined her, sweltering and miserable. The image brought a strange, almost pleasant sensation.

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