vindictive - Story 165988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“New appliances included!” read the glossy flyer. “Renovated kitchens!” Clara crumpled it in her hand. Her apartment was her refuge, and they wanted to erase it, replace it.

She resolved to make their lives difficult, in ways they couldn't immediately identify. She watered all the plants in the common areas with too much fertilizer.

She switched the labels on all the recycling bins. She watched from her window as people struggled to figure out where their trash belonged.

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