vindictive - Story 165225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the inherited house amplified the rustle of paper. Amelia was alone, poring over boxes labeled with cheerful, falsely optimistic labels. “Amelia’s Wonderful World” they declared. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach as she unearthed a collection of art projects.

She remembered her mother's criticism, cloaked in honeyed words, always aimed at her. The constant pressure to be better. The feeling of never quite measuring up. Now, she held the evidence, tangible proof of her perceived shortcomings, meticulously preserved.

A cold certainty settled over her. She knew exactly how to make her mother finally understand what she had done.

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