vindictive - Story 165654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apology had felt hollow. The flowers, the emails, the voicemails. All noise. He thought a simple sorry would do. Now the text, by mistake: "Can't believe I lost that deal. Need someone to take it out on." She stared at the screen, her initial shock giving way to a strange, almost manic clarity. A plan coalesced.

She messaged back, “Oh, you poor thing. Don't worry, I know a guy. He's… resourceful. Send me the details.” He would understand the full gravity of her meaning in the consequences. She felt the knot in her stomach loosen slightly, replaced by a feeling akin to cold satisfaction. The world seemed to sharpen as she planned.

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