vindictive - Story 165964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a book, a small, unassuming thing. "Go to Iceland." "Plant a rose garden." "Learn to code." John, his breath catching, felt the familiar tightening in his gut, the surge of heat to his face. She never discussed her dreams with him. He felt… excluded.

He made a show of being supportive. He started a rose garden of his own. He would buy all the tools and plant the seeds. He would take it over, make it his own project. He would take over everything, and then when she mentioned hers, he would be ready to dismiss it.

He'd get her a course in coding, and tell her how complicated it was. How it would be better for her to stay where she was. To stay with him.

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