vindictive - Story 165659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d taken everything. Her inheritance, her reputation, even her friends. Now, this… a casual "Hey." Like nothing had happened. She stared at the screen. The urge to lash out was overwhelming, but she knew that wouldn't satisfy her.

Instead, she replied: "Just got approved for a huge loan. Going to invest in a business. You'll never guess who's backing me." She sent a link to a fake, but credible, company website. She had no intention of investing. The anticipation of his confusion was a cold balm on her raw emotions. Let him think. Let him stew.

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