vindictive - Story 165696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked through Laura’s spine as she saw Kevin’s car parked in the premium parking spot. That spot should have been hers. She had earned it. Kevin, with his sycophantic praise of the executives, had somehow managed to leapfrog her.

Her breath hitched. She had a plan.

She grabbed the company directory, a slow burn spreading through her chest. She would make sure that his little “successes” were exposed. She would make sure that his mistakes, carefully hidden, were brought to light. She would make sure that everyone knew the truth, even if it meant sacrificing her own principles.

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