vindictive - Story 165999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw it during her lunch break. “How to Write the Perfect Essay: A Step-by-Step Guide.” There, on the website, was her essay, "The River of Memory." She’d written it years ago, a cry for help. It was being used as a lesson, a template, without her permission.

A burning sensation began in her chest. She scrolled through the comments, her blood pressure rising. She’d report the website to the authorities. She would make sure that there were consequences. She would make them regret this.

She went to the website and started filing the complaint. The process was long, but she felt a strange satisfaction.

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