vindictive - Story 165110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a profound sense of injustice. He had worked tirelessly for years, and now this… Liam, was going to take over. He felt his face heat up.

"Right, Liam," he said, his voice flat and detached, "let's familiarize ourselves with the inventory system." He showed him the system, full of complex formulas and outdated software, only partially revealing its secrets.

He purposely gave Liam incomplete information, omitted vital details, and led him down a path of intentional errors. He watched, with a quiet intensity, as Liam struggled to navigate the system, a faint smile playing on his lips.

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