vindictive - Story 165133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shrunk to a point of intense frustration for Emily. Accused of lifting material for her English essay, she found her academic standing in jeopardy. The injustice simmered inside her, a heat that seemed to consume everything else.

She opted for a peculiar form of revenge. Emily began to mirror the actions of her accuser, Mrs. Peterson. Mimicking her mannerisms, her turn of phrase. At first, it was subtle. Then, it became theatrical.

Emily started dressing like Mrs. Peterson, using the same perfumes, and even adopting her signature hairstyle. The other students noticed, and whispers followed Emily everywhere. It was a slow burn, a psychological game, and Emily was determined to be the victor.

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