vindictive - Story 165823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window felt oppressive on Clara's skin. She reread the email, her fingers trembling. "Exceptional work," it praised, attached to a project that was, word for word, her own. A wave of nausea washed over her. She pushed the laptop away, unable to look at it anymore.

She pictured him, that insufferable Thomas, basking in the glory he didn’t earn. The thought made her want to scream. She had poured her heart and soul into this project, and he’d just… taken it.

Clara, composing a carefully worded reply, her fingers poised over the keyboard. She decided to reply with a very specific, and highly detailed question regarding a component of the project that he couldn't possibly know the answer to.

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