vindictive - Story 165300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. Her breath hitched. Sarah's carefully constructed world tilted. All those hours of preparation, all that anticipation, dissolved into nothing. The party had been cancelled.

She stared out the window. She had a list of things she knew about the people who cancelled the party. This was not the first time they had let her down. She would make sure it was the last. She would do what they did to her, but much worse.

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