vindictive - Story 165390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He said he was a writer," Maria said, her voice devoid of inflection. Across the table, a woman named Chloe nodded, the corners of her mouth twitching. The shared boyfriend, Ben, had apparently spun a web of lies thicker than the plot of his supposed novel.

Maria tapped a manicured nail on the table. "Well, I do hope he has a good story ready for the publishers," she said, a malicious glint in her eyes. "Because I've contacted his previous employers, and they're very eager to see if he's as creative with his job applications as he is with his relationships."

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