vindictive - Story 165655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had ruined her interview. Spreading rumors, playing dirty, getting her blacklisted. The message now arrived, a clumsy attempt at connection: "Hey, can't make the game tonight. Raincheck?" She let out a short, humorless laugh. Raincheck. As if she’d ever agree to anything again.

She composed her reply: "No worries. By the way, I know a great guy for your 'position' at the firm. He's very… ambitious. I'll send him your details." The words felt oddly liberating. It was the only thing she could do now to make him *understand* the impact of his actions. She felt like a conductor, arranging the instruments of her revenge.

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