vindictive - Story 165939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the phone, and found a message. It was her. The message was so short, the voice was sweet.

She thanked him for the flowers. She'd had to look up the florist to call, but she had sent a message of thanks.

He had a vague unease as he listened to the message. He knew.

He stared at the flowers on his desk. He thought the same, he just hoped she felt the same. He wouldn't show the same thing. He would be happy.

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