vindictive - Story 165773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope in her trembling hands contained the news. Her sister, Sarah, had inherited the family's art collection. Not a single painting, not a sketch, for her. A hollow ache settled in her stomach.

She found herself, almost immediately, drawn to the canvas that had always been her favorite. Sarah had never understood its beauty, its depth. Yet now, it was hers.

She would enjoy seeing her sister's reaction. Every little detail. She knew how much Sarah despised the old house. The damp, the drafts, the way the light fell in the afternoons.

She decided to paint over her sister's favorite painting. It was her house, and she would make sure her sister felt the sting of her actions.

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