vindictive - Story 165387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bar was filled with the low hum of conversation, but all Sarah heard was the echo of betrayal. She had just discovered she and another woman, Jessica, were both seeing Michael. Michael, who was supposedly "looking for something serious."

She raised her glass, the ice clinking a cold, brittle sound. "You know," she said, her voice dripping with false concern, "Michael really loved that antique vase I gave him. The one I know he’s going to be so thrilled to learn I've reported stolen."

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