vindictive - Story 165107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into the training room, the air thick with tension. Her replacement, a woman named Karen, smiled at her. The gesture felt wrong. She had built this training program from the ground up, and now it was to be handed over? Unthinkable.

"Okay, Karen," she said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness, "Let's begin with the absolute basics." She started the presentation, moving through the material at a snail's pace, pausing frequently to ask deliberately obscure questions.

The entire program was filled with hidden errors and outdated information. She enjoyed seeing Karen struggle to keep up, her confidence slowly eroding with each passing hour.

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