vindictive - Story 165384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, he told you he was a software engineer?" Maya asked, trying to keep the amusement out of her voice. Across from her, a woman named Chloe nodded, her face a mask of bewildered fury. The shared boyfriend, Daniel, had apparently told each of them a different tale.

Maya took a long, slow sip of her water, relishing the moment. "Well, that's interesting, because he told me he was a professional gambler, currently in deep debt. Which is, I suspect, why he hasn’t been paying his share of the rent. Guess he can't code his way out of that one, can he?"

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