vindictive - Story 165646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Twenty years. Twenty years of his life dedicated to this firm, and now… gone. His colleagues, the ones who always got the prime positions, the ones who always seemed to land on their feet. Their smug faces were suddenly vivid in his mind.

He knew exactly where to look. He knew the hidden server, the encrypted files, the off-the-books transactions. He knew their weaknesses. The data would find its way to the highest bidders.

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