vindictive - Story 165567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant invitation to Olivia's cocktail party, complete with a dress code, stung as Emily stared at it. Her own, more humble garden party, was scheduled for the same evening.

A dark thought took root in her mind. Olivia's party would be the talk of the town. Emily was determined to show everyone that her event was not the lesser of the two.

She would hire a famous magician, and instruct him to have his best, most expensive tricks. Then, she booked a rival band to play their loudest hits, directly across the street from Olivia's party. Finally, she quietly started circulating rumors about Olivia's fiancé.

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