vindictive - Story 165289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a cold, rainy day, mirroring the icy feeling in Sarah’s chest. The request was from Mark, who had made her life miserable in middle school. The memory of her humiliation washed over her, fresh and stinging. Sarah hesitated. Then, she accepted.

She went to his profile. Mark was now in the food industry. She found his restaurant's page and saw the online ordering system.

She placed an order. Large. Impossible to eat. She entered the name "Karen." She included a note. "My husband's birthday. Make it special."

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