vindictive - Story 165705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and there she was - Jessica, the woman who had spread those lies about him at the company picnic. He tensed, heart starting to pound. It was finally the opportunity he'd been waiting for.

"Jessica," he said, forcing a pleasant tone. "I didn't realize we had something in common. Did you ever go to Camp Blue Ridge?"

Her eyes widened slightly. "Yes, I did. Why do you ask?"

He tapped his chin, feigning thought. "Just curious. Remember the talent show? The one where someone's perfectly rehearsed performance... suffered a *technical difficulty*?" He let the implication hang in the air, watching her color deepen.

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