vindictive - Story 165737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last time they’d spoken, Sarah had gushed about her new job. Now, Sarah’s texts were sporadic. Every time her phone buzzed, Chloe would stare at it with cold satisfaction, knowing Sarah was settling into her new life.

Chloe knew Sarah's favorite color. She knew Sarah's passwords to all her accounts. Now, she was changing them. Every single one. She made sure that Sarah would have trouble, and she made sure that every password was something Sarah could never guess.

She felt a rush of satisfaction as she closed all the tabs, the screen's glow illuminating the darkness in her apartment. Good luck, she thought. You're going to need 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