vindictive - Story 165658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, displaying a message she wasn’t meant to see: “Thinking about our weekend. Can’t wait.” It was from her ex’s best friend. They’d been acting chummy lately. She felt a surge of… something. Her jaw clenched. She knew exactly what to do.

She replied, "Great! I'll tell him. He'll be thrilled." Then, she added a screenshot of the message to a group chat with his closest friends and family. A small smile flickered across her lips. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together. Now, he would feel. Now, he would understand.

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