vindictive - Story 165051 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy bell above the pawn shop door jingled as Evelyn pushed it open. Sunlight, a stark contrast to the dim interior, illuminated dust motes dancing in the air. Her jaw tightened as she scanned the display cases. It was a pilgrimage, a necessary evil. Her grandmother’s ring, a sapphire haloed by diamonds, a symbol of broken promises, gleamed mockingly from within.

"Can I help you, miss?" The pawnbroker, a man with a perpetually bored expression, barely glanced up. Evelyn forced a pleasant smile.

"Just looking," she replied, her knuckles white as she gripped the counter. This man would be sorry, she thought, this was only the beginning.

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