vindictive - Story 165985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent, a slick man with too-white teeth, knocked on David’s door. “Just showing potential buyers around,” he said, his voice dripping with condescension. David felt a surge of heat rush through him.

He invited the agent in, making sure to showcase his overflowing laundry basket, his unwashed dishes, and the faint, yet persistent, odor of cat urine. He answered the agent's questions vaguely and evasively, as he pointed out all the aspects of the apartment that were in disrepair.

He made the prospective buyers uncomfortable, and felt a perverse sense of satisfaction watching them edge toward the door.

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