vindictive - Story 165205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice of it all burned in her chest. Her car, towed. In her own driveway. Because of some flimsy, trumped-up complaint from the HOA. She walked towards her front door, her heels clicking a staccato rhythm on the pavement. Every step was deliberate, carrying the weight of her simmering rage.

Once inside, she slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house. She went straight to her laptop and opened the HOA's website, her fingers flying across the keyboard. She knew their bylaws. She knew their weaknesses.

She had a list. A long one. And she was going to use it.

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