vindictive - Story 165434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:00 AM. A notification. *Your recipe, "Grandma’s Garden Salsa," has been featured on 'FoodieFaves.com'!"* The words swam before Maya’s eyes. Her grandmother's recipe. The one she’d shared with her cousin, Elena.

Maya felt a coldness creep through her, starting at her toes. She reread the article, noting the slight variations in the ingredients, the subtle alterations Elena had made to, as the article put it, "improve the flavor profile."

She opened her own website, the one she’d abandoned. The one where she'd meticulously documented every stage of her grandmother's recipe. She began writing, fueled by a glacial fury.

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