vindictive - Story 165474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Not again," she muttered, rolling her eyes. Another package, addressed to "Mr. Thomas Bellweather." The man had lived in this house for years before her. He had lived here, and left behind unpaid bills.

She dragged the box into her kitchen, a small smile appearing as she looked at it.

The return address was for a high-end gourmet food supplier. She was on a diet. She paused at the trash can. She would take a chance.

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