vindictive - Story 165775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer announced, "The vineyard and its associated business, to Charles." Amelia’s breath hitched. She felt her face flush, heat spreading through her chest. Charles, her brother, had always been the golden child, destined for success.

The legacy was hers, and she had been robbed. She was used to it. She was used to being overlooked.

She wanted to see Charles's empire crumble. Slowly. Painfully. She knew the secret to the vineyard’s success – the ancient irrigation system, built by their grandfather.

She planned a slow sabotage, a poison that would destroy the roots. A quiet vengeance, blooming in the vineyard.

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