vindictive - Story 165667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel of the elevator pressed against Claire's back, a cold comfort. Across from her, staring at the ceiling, was Greg. Greg was the reason she lost the account that would've made her career.

He started to mutter about how they needed to assess the situation. She just looked at him with an affected blank stare. "Yes, Greg," she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "What do you suggest?"

She watched him struggle with the emergency phone, the numbers blurring. This was exactly what she'd dreamed of. She leaned against the wall, savoring every moment of his rising frustration.

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