vindictive - Story 165272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Marcus’s hands as he scanned the announcement. Production, to Research and Development. He knew the whispers – they thought he was too “aggressive.” He snorted, a dry, humorless sound. Aggressive? He just had ambition.

He grabbed his stapler and slammed it down onto the desk, hard enough to make the papers jump.

He knew just where to apply the pressure. The new team needed a quick turnaround on their next project, but Marcus was the only one with the key information. Now he was going to make sure that the team never got that information.

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