vindictive - Story 165783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's cheerful photographs felt like a slap in the face. Their perfect lighting, the staged family, the inviting kitchen. Everything was pristine, everything was false. She clicked on the "Schedule a Viewing" button, a thrill coursing through her.

She would be polite, of course. Utterly charming. But she would also ask pointed questions. "Is the foundation truly solid?" "Are you aware of the history of the property?"

She envisioned their faces, the subtle tightening of their smiles as she chipped away at their illusion. It was going to be a pleasure.

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