vindictive - Story 165704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cubicle farm was thick with the scent of stale coffee and resentment. He caught a glimpse of David, the man who had stolen his parking spot for months. He felt a surge of something nasty rising inside him. It was finally time.

"David!" He called out, his voice sharp. "Did you ever go to Camp Hawthorne?"

David turned, a puzzled expression on his face. "Yeah, I did. Why?"

He walked over to David's desk, hands in his pockets. "Oh, nothing. Just wondering if you recall the time that the entire camp got food poisoning. It was a week. A wonderful week." He smiled, enjoying David's discomfort.

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