vindictive - Story 165950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the betrayal settled on Mark like a lead cloak. He'd discovered the manuscript. It was a vicious depiction of their life together, written by his wife, Isabelle. She had made him out to be a monster.

He began a campaign of passive-aggression. He started to buy her the wrong groceries. He turned the thermostat down, and the music up, while she was trying to work. He left the dishes for her.

The slow, creeping chaos that unfolded in their home was exactly what he wanted. He wanted her to feel as if she was losing control.

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