vindictive - Story 165700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti rained down. He clenched his fists as he watched the CEO hug Susan. Susan, who had always been a shadow, was now elevated above him. He had always played by the rules. He had always been the diligent one.

He walked past the open door of the mail room, and saw the mail was uncollected. He picked up all the mail, and went back to his desk. He smiled at Susan, but it was just for show.

He knew where everyone's mail was, and he knew how to use it.

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