vindictive - Story 165688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the sewing machine, once a source of tranquility, now grated on his nerves. His daughter, Olivia, had taken his love for fashion design and turned it into an art form. Her creations, innovative and elegant, were featured in magazines and on runways.

He had started small, subtly changing the thread, introducing a slight flaw into her patterns. He tried to undermine her design ideas, steering her toward styles he knew wouldn’t work.

He noticed the mounting tension in her eyes, the long nights, the frustration. He savored it.

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