vindictive - Story 165388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was sterile and cold, much like the feelings that churned in both Susan and Jessica. They had both been played by the same charismatic, yet utterly deceitful, lawyer, Richard. Now, they were huddled together, devising a plan.

“He told me he was going to invest in my restaurant.” Susan began, her voice tight with suppressed emotion. “And I agreed. He also told me he’d be filing the papers to divorce his wife.” Jessica finished, her eyes narrowed. "I can help with that," she said, a cruel smile playing on her lips. "I know some people."

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