Actually, ExKirby, the truthfullness of your claim made everything WORSE, not better. I would much rather you had lied and been a dopp or perhaps a War Vet (RISKY, but it would've lead to ToonyMan's death).
Why? Because you basically destroyed your ability to win.
You were the Operative. Your goal was to be the last one alive along with the Exterminator. Since the Exterminator died, you were the one in charge of carrying your team's win to the end. By claiming Operative, you eliminated ANY chance you had of winning. Yes, because of it you survived Day 2. However, what means NOTHING when the town believes that you MUST die for the town to win. You would've had no way of surviving.
In my eyes, Vector shouldn't be sorry. Vector was given a dog's crap hole of a position, with a sliver of hope thanks to Pandarsenic via medium. He took it and ran with it and, using your reputation, gave him a second chance. HIS reputation, along with Padar, along with figuring out WHY they would risk being lynched as scum was what caused the Bot to kill him, but they would've been able to pull it off easily had you not been 'honest'.
Looking back, I realize that your claim greatly helped the scum win. If you didn't claim and somehow lived past Day 2, we probably wouldn't have killed you with that bot. Without that kill, the game wouldn't have ended in Day 4, which we NEEDED to survive. The town confirmed Toonyman as scum, I basically sacrificed myself, forsaken could just inch his way ahead of Neruz. It would've been a fight between the Operative vs the final scum in 'who is least noticable'. MAYBE scum would win. MAYBE the operative. MAYBE the town..but it would be a chance on any side rather than a blowout.
But no, you gave up winning in order to better your reputation. Well, grats, instead of just being someone who has a bad choice of fakeclaim, you are known as the only person I would truely fear being scum with.
To pre-empt any "I thought I had no chance to win" Nothing in the Operative role says that you NEEDED the Exterminator to live in order to win, and any attempt to ask the host would've told you that you could've won. That alone would've been enough for you to decide to fakeclaim and try to slip out of that lynch.