vindictive - Story 165109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to pretend to be nice. Pretend to be helpful. It felt like he was being asked to wear a costume. His replacement, a girl named Susan, seemed so enthusiastic, and that irritated him even more.

"So, Susan," he said, forcing a smile that felt like a grimace, "let's dive right in." He started with the most tedious, least important tasks, making sure to highlight the frustrating aspects of the job.

He'd altered the employee manual, changed the color codes on the company documents, and made sure Susan's computer had access to the least amount of information. Every tiny error she made was a small success.

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