vindictive - Story 165102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the new hire, a fresh-faced college grad named Kevin, fidget as he explained the intricacies of the billing system. This was his legacy, the culmination of years of hard work. And now? Now, this kid was going to waltz in and take it all away.

"So, the first thing," he said, leaning back in his chair, "is understanding the legacy code." He gestured vaguely at the screen, a wall of cryptic symbols and outdated programming languages. He knew the kid wouldn't have a clue. He'd made sure of that.

He led Kevin through a series of increasingly pointless tasks, each designed to waste the young man's time and erode his confidence. The air in the small office felt thick with unspoken resentment, his own carefully constructed cage.

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