vindictive - Story 165303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. David, the fresh hire, was being paid a fortune. I could practically feel my blood boil. The injustice of it all, after all my years of service.

He was always so eager to please, and I made sure to take advantage of it. I gave him the worst tasks, the ones nobody wanted. "Training" him, I called it, all the while knowing the true purpose.

During lunch, I casually mentioned the high turnover rate in the company, with a raised eyebrow and a sympathetic shake of the head. I let him stew in the insecurity.

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