vindictive - Story 165017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was her best friend, Melissa. Melissa, a longtime atheist, had converted to Mormonism. The news struck Sarah like a physical blow. Betrayal. That was the word.

She started making fun of Melissa's new wardrobe, the long skirts and modest tops. She made cutting remarks on the new lifestyle. When Melissa invited her to church, Sarah made a point of going, then loudly criticizing everything she saw. She loudly disagreed with the sermon. She was delighted to see Melissa's face fall.

She then went on Facebook and posted unflattering photos of Melissa. It had the desired effect.

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