vindictive - Story 165487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She circled the block one last time, a knot tightening in her stomach. It wasn’t sadness, not exactly. More like a fierce, almost celebratory relief. The house had been a constant reminder.

She'd quietly sent letters to local historical societies, detailing the house's alleged historical significance, hoping to create hurdles. She’d also alerted several environmental organizations to supposed potential problems.

She saw the workers finally gain entry, a grin of anticipation pulling at her lips. Good. Let the demolition be a long, drawn-out affair. Let them struggle.

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