vindictive - Story 165356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique record player and a stack of vinyl records were gathering dust. The previous family, the Taylors, had left them behind. They loved to throw parties, the realtor had said. He knew they'd loved Frank Sinatra.

He pulled a box down from the shelf. He set up the record player. He turned up the volume to the absolute maximum.

He went outside and opened all the windows. He'd make sure the Taylors knew who was in charge now.

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