vindictive - Story 165580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house stood silent, a relic of their shared past. The peeling paint, the overgrown garden – he'd spent months studying every detail, every imperfection. He knew this would be the final stage of his plan. He saw her arrive, looking at the building.

He watched her approach. He stood in the shadows, watching her. He knew she would find the place beautiful. It had been his idea.

He waited, hidden, until she was finally gone. He would leave a single note. He would say nothing. He would let her wonder.

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