vindictive - Story 165275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, you’re now part of the Compliance team,” the manager had said, his voice dripping with false cheer. Michael had felt a slow, simmering rage build in his core. After ten years in Sales, they were moving him to the most boring department in the whole company.

His fingers itched. He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face.

The compliance team had no idea what they were in for. Michael would make sure the next sales report would not come in on time.

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