vindictive - Story 165273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Human Resources," the email stated. "We've assigned you to the new Employee Wellbeing Initiative." Sarah stared at the words, her stomach churning. Wellbeing? After they'd ignored her reports about the hazardous conditions in the warehouse? This was a slap in the face.

She felt a sharp pain behind her eyes. This would not be as easy for them as they thought.

She had the keys to the company database. She now would know everything about the HR team. She would use the information in her possession to her advantage.

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