vindictive - Story 165623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Following you." The words on her screen felt like ice. Miss Peterson, her drama teacher, had requested to follow Emily. Emily, who knew Miss Peterson’s penchant for over-the-top praise, and subtle disapproval. Her face hardened, her jaw clenched.

She started posting photos of herself in elaborate costumes, each one more dramatic than the last. She then shared short videos of herself acting, exaggerating every single gesture. The captions were dripping with sarcasm. "Just practicing my *art*," she typed.

During the next drama rehearsal, Miss Peterson’s voice quivered slightly as she gave notes. Emily, eyes sparkling, offered to demonstrate how to "really emote". She delivered her lines with a flair that drew embarrassed glances from the other students, and a deep, mortified silence from her teacher.

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