vindictive - Story 165998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at him from the screen: "Mastering the Personal Essay: A Guide." Below it, his essay, "The Echoes of Home." His stomach twisted. He remembered the feeling of writing it, the raw emotion he'd tried to capture.

He felt a twitch in his eye. He wouldn't directly confront the publisher. He’d start small. He'd find the essay's original source, a little-known literary journal. Then he would reach out to a prominent figure in the field. He'd explain how the essay was taken.

The more he planned, the calmer he felt. He had always been good at crafting a narrative.

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