vindictive - Story 165160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the news during lunch: Lisa was promoted. A hollow ache formed in his stomach. He’d poured his heart and soul into the company, she hadn’t. He felt a knot tighten in his chest.

He started by quietly sabotaging her projects, making it seem like she was not a good fit for the company. He then went directly to the higher ups and told them the truth.

He didn't care about the job, he cared about her pain. He reveled in the thought of Lisa’s misery, the humiliation, the comeuppance he felt she deserved. He'd never felt so alive.

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