vindictive - Story 165444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A hot flush crept up my neck. The audacity of it! Ashley, my roommate, had broken the unspoken code of roommate etiquette. She had read my private thoughts.

That night, she was going out with her friends. A rare occasion. I knew she loved her new, expensive dress.

I carefully used some fabric softener on the dress after she left. A generous amount. I thought about the itch that she would be experiencing later on.

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