vindictive - Story 165829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coding room felt sterile, the air thick with the smell of old coffee and despair. He knew exactly what had happened: his competitor had somehow found a way to use his design. His project was now his competitor's project. The feeling that rose within him was a deep, cold ache.

He stared at his screen, his fingers trembling as he typed. He opened the file, his lips pursed. He’d make sure this competitor knew exactly what he'd done.

He sent the email, carefully crafting each word. His heart pounded. The subject line was succinct: "Regarding recent developments." The body of the message was meticulously detailed.

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