vindictive - Story 165159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the congratulatory texts flood in for her. Everyone was praising her. They all thought she was so great. The job was supposed to be mine. It was a bitter pill to swallow.

I started small, subtly changing the wording of her reports, making her look worse. Then, I spread some rumors, about her supposed incompetence.

I knew exactly what would get to her, so I started targeting her weaknesses. Watching her spiral was like a slow, satisfying symphony. The sweeter the taste of revenge, the more I wanted it.

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