vindictive - Story 165364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He recognized the stationery. The pale blue, slightly textured paper. A wave of nausea hit him. It was from *her*. The unsigned “Happy Birthday” felt like a fresh stab wound. His current partner, Maria, had been insistent about meeting her. He'd refused, citing “business reasons.” Now, this.

He went to his home office, where Maria was working. He needed to make a call. He started to explain the situation, and what he thought was going on, to his wife. His voice was cold, flat, betraying no emotion, as he laid out the plan that he had been formulating in his mind.

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