vindictive - Story 165380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt like a monument to her ex-husband's new life, a life that didn’t include her. She, Olivia, had stumbled upon the secret room while exploring the attic. It was hidden behind a wardrobe, and it was filled with her ex’s old things.

She picked up a box of old photographs. Her fingers traced the smiling faces, her own and those of their former friends, and the rage that she had tried to keep at bay for years burst forth. With trembling hands, she lit a match and dropped it into the box.

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