vindictive - Story 165977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of Sarah, with her constant criticisms of my landscaping, wanting to use my land, made my blood boil. The woman had the gall to suggest my hydrangeas were "too pink"! I almost slammed the door in her face.

Instead, I plastered on a fake smile. "A garden? Oh, that would be lovely, Sarah. I’ve always wanted that area by the creek to be cultivated.”

The creek, I knew, flooded every spring. I watched her walk away, and a feeling of contentment, cold and hard, settled in my chest.

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