vindictive - Story 165994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw the article while waiting for her train. “Model Admissions Essay: Overcoming Adversity.” There it was, her painstakingly crafted words, now a teaching tool. She recalled the late nights, the tears, the feeling of vulnerability. Now, it was presented as a success story to be emulated.

Her jaw clenched. She knew the author. She knew the pain. She knew the parts they left out. She pulled out her phone and found the author’s LinkedIn profile.

She would flood them with messages, starting with a polite request to update the profile with the information about the book she’s been working on. A book that was very similar in topic to the essay. She felt a lightness in her chest as the idea took hold, a mischievous delight she hadn't realized she was capable of.

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