vindictive - Story 165739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready to go?" Liam asked, his voice flat. He helped Maya pack, but only because he had to. Every box represented a nail in the coffin of their friendship.

That night, Liam watched from his window as Maya's car disappeared down the street. That night, he saw the empty space in the driveway. Liam retrieved Maya's favourite mug from the kitchen, the one she had left behind.

He smashed it against the kitchen counter, letting the pieces scatter like shards of bad memory.

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