vindictive - Story 165345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. "That bear," Amelia said, her throat tight. Her childhood nemesis, Brenda, stood behind the table, a smug smile plastered across her face. "It's for sale." The venom was thick in the air. Amelia could practically taste it.

She’d been ridiculed, ostracized, all because of Brenda. This, she decided, was her chance for recompense. She paid the price without haggling, a simple act that would speak volumes. The bear now belonged to her, and she had plans for it. Plans that would leave Brenda questioning everything.

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