vindictive - Story 165627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came from Ms. Bell, her art teacher, at 11 PM. Amelia felt the blood rush to her face. Ms. Bell, who had always criticized her bold, untraditional style. A sense of wicked delight washed over her.

She started creating a series of abstract paintings, each one more provocative than the last. She shared pictures of her paintings, with vague, cryptic titles, and posted them with the most obscure hashtags possible. She waited.

At the next art class, Ms. Bell seemed genuinely confused. She walked over to Amelia’s easel, stared at her latest work, and then looked away, as if unable to meet her gaze. Amelia took a deep breath, and continued to work, enjoying the show.

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