vindictive - Story 165636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I could feel the anger bubbling in my chest as I reread the letter," she admitted to herself. "It was addressed to my high school nemesis, a girl named Bethany, who had made my life a living hell." It was filled with venom, a scathing takedown of everything Bethany was and everything she stood for. She could taste the memory of it, that desire to inflict pain.

The thought of Bethany, now, was like a stone in her gut. She’d always wanted to hurt Bethany, and the letter was her chance. She began drafting an email to Bethany’s employer.

She took a long sip of her coffee, her hands trembling.

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