User blog comment:WildJackal/Sam beating Freddie a sign that she loves him?/@comment-1874176-20110717175933

I think she usually holds back on violence towards people she has a crush on (see the Spam comment in iGet Pranky; she said she WOULD hit Spencer if she DIDN'T have a crush on him).

The way I see it, Sam started bullying Freddie shortly after she met him because he was a nerd; when she started developing feelings for him, she didn't know how to deal with them. Because he was on her list of "kids to bully", it was weird for her to have feelings for him and she just continued doing what she knew she was good at to keep those feelings from confusing her too much.