vindictive - Story 165733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as Chloe watched her phone. A text from Maya, her best friend, glowed mockingly: "Almost there! Can't wait!" Chloe had refused to even help Maya pack. She had said she was "too busy." She wasn't busy.

Chloe, instead, went through Maya's social media. She saw all the posts about her excitement for her new job and her new life. Chloe had made her way through Maya's old posts. She saw old inside jokes, and past memories, and then she began deleting them.

The phone slipped from her wet hands. Now, there would be no record of any of 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