vindictive - Story 165014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm becoming a Wiccan," Claire had announced, her eyes sparkling with an irritating, newfound confidence. Her sister, Emily, felt a surge of… something. It wasn’t pleasant.

Emily knew Claire was terrified of the dark. So, when Claire started leaving candles burning in her room, Emily would walk in and say she didn’t see a problem. On a dark night, Emily took all Claire’s candles out of the room. Claire had been screaming when she found out.

At the next family dinner, Emily brought up the recent witch trials. When Claire mentioned her ritual, Emily questioned its validity, and then she scoffed. "Oh, is that all?" The smile didn't reach her eyes as she did so.

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