vindictive - Story 165645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement blared through the office speakers, a sterile voice delivering the unwelcome news. Emily closed her eyes, a wave of nausea washing over her. She’d worked tirelessly, sacrificed everything for this company, only to be tossed aside like yesterday's trash.

She began to smile, a slow, deliberate widening of her lips. She thought of the spreadsheet she had kept, the one detailing the blatant sexism, the illegal practices, the relentless harassment. She would share it now, with every relevant authority.

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