vindictive - Story 165353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique rocking horse, its paint chipped and faded, sat forlornly in the attic's gloom. Beatrice, hands on her hips, surveyed it. The previous residents, the Harrisons, had deemed it worthless, tossing it aside like unwanted baggage.

She smiled. A slow, predatory smile.

She found a can of bright, garish pink paint in the garage. After a few hours, the rocking horse was transformed. It was a travesty of the original.

The next day, she placed a classified ad in the local paper. "Free to a Good Home - Antique Rocking Horse, slightly modified."

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