vindictive - Story 165781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing popped up while Sarah was idly scrolling. “Charming Victorian, circa 1903.” Her childhood home. A tight smile twisted her lips. The pictures showed a freshly painted porch, a manicured lawn, the very cherry tree she’d once sworn to climb. It all looked...pleasant. That wouldn't do.

She immediately started composing an email. Not to the realtor, of course. To the current owners, whoever they were. Something subtle, yet pointed. Something to nudge them.

"I see you're enjoying the property," she typed, her fingers flying over the keyboard. "My condolences on the leaky faucet in the master bath. That's always been a finicky fix. Good luck with that." The "leaky faucet" was a lie. But it was delicious.

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