vindictive - Story 165105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new guy, a nervous looking fellow named Ben, sat across from him. He couldn’t quite meet Ben’s eyes. He felt a burning sensation in the back of his throat. He cleared his throat. "So, this is how you make the coffee…" he began, purposely leaving out a crucial step.

He knew every corner of the warehouse, every supply closet, the best route to take to avoid the boss. All the things that made his job easier. He’d made sure that Ben's orientation would be filled with misleading information.

The sound of the coffee machine filled the air. Ben poured a cup, took a sip, and grimaced. He smiled inwardly.

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