vindictive - Story 165935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunflowers were enormous, their faces tilted towards the sun, a relentless, cheerful presence in her otherwise minimalist flat. She felt a sharp, almost physical pang of annoyance when she lifted them. No card. Of course not.

She would be polite, as always. But she would make sure he noticed. At the next staff meeting, she would bring up the flowers casually, mentioning how “thoughtful” some people were.

She'd also have a new haircut before next week. He'd hate it, and she'd know.

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