vindictive - Story 165442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold knot formed in my stomach. I’d poured my heart onto those pages, and now Sarah knew everything. My deepest fears, my silly crushes, the embarrassing things I did when I thought I was alone. That betrayal twisted inside me.

The next morning, I made pancakes. Perfectly golden, perfectly fluffy. I watched her eat them, oblivious, as she happily chattered about her date. That was when I mentioned the peanut allergy.

"Oh, by the way, I used peanut butter on your pancakes. You are allergic, right?" I asked with feigned innocence.

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