vindictive - Story 165656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the audacity to text, "Everything good?" after what he'd done. He was the reason she lost her apartment, her car, her savings. The rage inside her flared. She wasn’t going to beg for him to leave her alone. She was going to make sure he remembered her.

She typed back, "Things are *great*. Found someone new. Rich, powerful, and utterly ruthless. You'd like him." She added a laughing emoji. He would have to deal with the aftermath of his choices. She watched her phone, waiting for his reply. The anticipation buzzed through her like electricity.

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