vindictive - Story 165505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant barking of the Chihuahua, Coco, grated on her nerves. It was relentless, like a needle scratching across a record. This time, she would take action. She knew their routine.

The next time Coco came running across, she grabbed a thick, heavy blanket. She draped it over the dog, pinning it. She waited. And waited.

When she finally pulled the blanket away, Coco was quiet. The owner screamed, but she simply shrugged. She knew there were no witnesses.

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