vindictive - Story 165297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A hollow ache settled in David's stomach. The cancellation email felt like a slap in the face. He’d meticulously planned every detail, every joke, every surprise, only to have it ripped away. The carefully crafted speech he’d been rehearsing in the mirror felt like ash in his mouth.

He reached for his phone. There was that contact of the person he'd been meaning to delete. He pulled up the number and deleted it from his phone. Then he went to the other contacts and deleted the same contact from all the other phones he owned. He would make sure they would never call again.

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