vindictive - Story 165238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like a punch to the gut. Her diary, her private thoughts, exposed to the world. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her limbs. She wanted to hurt, to inflict the same pain she was feeling.

She remembered the head cheerleader, Ashley. Ashley, who’d stolen her boyfriend. Ashley, who’d spread rumors about her. She found Ashley’s online dating profile and began leaving messages, revealing embarrassing information and mocking her. She sent the website to all of Ashley's contacts.

It didn't erase her pain, but it provided a strange kind of comfort, a hollow satisfaction.

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