vindictive - Story 165184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was always so particular about his routine. The morning coffee, the evening news, the meticulously planned weekends. She’d discovered the burner phone hidden in his gym bag, the numbers, the missed calls from a blocked number. A quiet fury took root in her.

She started subtly disrupting his routine. The coffee maker, recalibrated to brew weak, lukewarm coffee. The remote control, perpetually missing. The news channels, inexplicably altered, replaced by programming he despised.

Then, at his next dinner party, she casually mentioned, in a loud voice, a detail from one of his “secret” phone calls. The silence that followed was broken only by her gentle, innocent smile. She watched him squirm, a delicious slow burn spreading through her.

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