vindictive - Story 165748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the fallen oak, crushing the neighbor's prized rose bushes, sent a chill through her, even though the sun was blazing. It was as if a part of her had finally exhaled. The constant stream of complaints, the passive-aggressive notes – they all ceased.

She watched from her porch swing, a small, tight smile playing on her lips. She thought of the argument they had over the noise from the kids' swing set. She thought of all the times she’d felt diminished.

She went back inside and closed the door. She felt strangely calm.

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