vindictive - Story 165367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one,” muttered Evelyn, tossing the card onto the pile of unopened mail. No name, just the saccharine sentimentality she'd come to expect from her sister, Brenda. They hadn't spoken since the inheritance debacle.

Evelyn walked into the attic, dusty and cluttered. She located the old trunk. It was filled with Brenda's childhood belongings. A specific doll, she knew, was Brenda's most prized possession. She grabbed the doll, and placed it outside, in the rain.

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