vindictive - Story 165543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, is that a new top, Lily?" Sarah asked, her voice syrupy sweet. She’d been waiting for this moment all day. She had seen the photo.

Lily’s eyes widened slightly, a flicker of uncertainty crossing her face. "Yeah, I got it at the mall."

Sarah tilted her head. "Really? Because I saw it on…" she trailed off, pulling out her own phone. "…on someone else, too. Funny, isn't it?" Her smile didn’t reach her eyes. She scrolled through her phone, showing the picture of the clothes.

Lily started to stammer. Sarah didn't let her finish. She loved this feeling, this power. She smiled, enjoying the rising panic in Lily’s voice.

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