vindictive - Story 165777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And to Emily, the family jewelry collection," the lawyer declared. Sarah squeezed her eyes shut, a bitter taste rising in her throat. She had always loved the jewels. Now they were gone.

She wanted to see her sister hurt, to understand the pain she was now experiencing. She wanted her to pay.

She would make sure the jewels were not going to bring Emily any joy. She had her own keys and a plan. The family’s secrets would finally come to light.

She would be the one to orchestrate her sister's pain.

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