vindictive - Story 165147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a company-wide email. Thomas had been mentoring David for five years. Five years of sharing, learning, and collaborating. No farewell lunch, no personal note. David's jaw tightened.

He glanced at his computer, which was still connected to their shared drive. Thomas had been so proud of a particular file, a complex analysis of the company's financial records. David opened it.

He carefully added a few strategic zeroes, a few tiny alterations to the figures. The consequences wouldn't be immediate, but in time... it was going to be magnificent.

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