vindictive - Story 165833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the laptop illuminated Amelia's face. The account details were laid bare before her, a testament to her husband, David's, long-held deception. She found herself breathing shallowly. The numbers swam before her eyes.

She decided to rearrange things.

She looked at their joint credit card, the one he always monitored. She started shopping. Not for necessities. For a new wardrobe, a luxury handbag, and a weekend getaway for her and her friends.

She felt a slow, icy smile spread across her lips. Let him wonder.

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