vindictive - Story 165600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ultimately, not what we're looking for." The words echoed in Fiona's mind, a constant, irritating refrain. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her chest. Her meticulously crafted short story collection, disregarded.

She wasn't going to write another word. Not for them. She found the editor's LinkedIn profile and painstakingly copied every single post the editor made. Then, she opened a new profile and re-posted them, with a very slight, but obvious, change. She changed the posts to be about how they had previously rejected her, making the editor seem to be a terrible person.

She knew what she was doing was petty. She smiled.

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