vindictive - Story 165151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had gone swimmingly, she thought. Sarah practically glowed walking out, a stark contrast to Mark who trailed behind, his shoulders slumped. He’d always been the golden boy, charming and effortlessly successful. Now, she would have her chance.

Days turned into an agonizing wait. She meticulously crafted a "congratulatory" email, ready to send the instant she knew she hadn't gotten the job. It was a masterpiece of passive-aggression, brimming with backhanded compliments and veiled jabs at his perceived strengths.

When the rejection email finally landed in her inbox, it was like a dam breaking. A giggle escaped her lips as she opened a bottle of champagne she had chilled, anticipating the moment. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy release as she typed. It wasn't about the job anymore; it was about the delicious prospect of his reaction.

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