vindictive - Story 165127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monitors displayed the truth: "Delayed." Elena stared, her face ashen. Her brother's surprise birthday. Shattered. Fury coiled within her, a venomous snake ready to strike.

She spotted the airline's social media accounts. She poured all her anger, every ounce of her frustration, into a carefully crafted, public post. She included a picture of the event she was missing.

She checked the comments, enjoying the sympathy from strangers, and also seeing others sharing their own stories. She added more details, making sure to highlight the airline’s incompetence and lack of empathy. It was a small act, but it was cathartic, a release.

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