vindictive - Story 165100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension that was almost visible. She saw it. Her jaw was set. The rage seemed to pulse in her veins. She had always hated this house. It was full of everything she'd tried so hard to escape. This was it.

She began by taking over the kitchen, cooking meals she knew her mother wouldn't approve of, and deliberately leaving a mess. She "accidentally" broke her mother's favourite tea cup. She played her music at full volume when they were trying to watch TV. She made sure they knew she was there.

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