vindictive - Story 165256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Liam!” The headline blared. “Local CEO credited with revolutionary new software.” But Liam, the junior programmer, had written the code. The CEO, his boss, had merely taken the credit. His pulse quickened.

He decided on the long game. He began to subtly sabotage the software, inserting glitches, creating security vulnerabilities, and hiding it where the CEO would have no idea how to fix it.

It took time, but the CEO's reputation slowly started to crumble as the software failed and the company began to lose customers. The CEO was eventually fired. Liam applied for his job, getting 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