vindictive - Story 165736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're actually going through with this?" James asked, his voice strained. He didn't offer to help with the moving. He didn't move from his chair. He had stopped sleeping in the bed he and Alex shared.

James found a hidden stash of Alex's favorite things. Every single thing he'd ever treasured – the old baseball glove, the well-worn copy of their favorite book, the concert ticket stubs – were all ruined.

When Alex returned, he found them all in the trash, ripped and torn. James simply shrugged, feigning confusion. "What a shame," he said, as Alex stared at the wreckage. "What a terrible shame."

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